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...Pearl Harbor, 2,100 from Australia's northern tip. From there the Jap could hit at the U.S.-Australia supply line, at the islands (close to that route) east of Australia, or even at Pearl Harbor itself. From there also he could sweep down and join the New Guinea-New Britain forces in an assault on Australia...
Died. John Hewitt Andrus, 62, one of 16 Spanish-American War soldiers who volunteered as "guinea pigs" in Dr. Walter Reed's fight against yellow fever; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Warned that the experiment might kill him, he let himself be injected with blood from a yellow fever victim so that Reed could study the disease's course...
...great is Bishop Wade's influence in the Solomon Islands (which string out 1,600 miles just east of New Guinea) that their Melanesian natives (see cut) are known far & wide as his "Black Irish...
Martin's audacious theory (already tested with rats and chicks) will be tested later this month on a volunteer group of Sing Sing convicts, who are now guinea-pigging the darkening effects of a B vitamin (para-amino-benzoic acid) on grey hair (TIME...
Every night the human guinea pigs, after eating "test food," went to bed with a battery of scientific apparatus hitched up to their toes, a microphone strapped to their stomachs. They did not have very comfortable nights. Ohio State Physiologist Hugh Boyd McGlade woke them periodically to ask if they were dreaming. He discovered that dreams were heralded by a "rapid rumbling" below the stomach, a twitching of the right foot. Good food to induce dreams, he found, was bananas. When his guinea pigs ate ice cream, fresh tomatoes or canned pineapple, they neither twitched, rumbled nor dreamed...