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...busiest doctor in Chungking last week was Chang Chien-tsai, a spidery, parchment-skinned man of 64 who never studied anatomy, dissected a cadaver or saw a microbe. He is one of the 800,000 herb doctors who still provide most of China's medical care. (At the highest estimate, there are only 12,000 Western-trained physicians in China...
...work half a day in a bank, while my in-laws take care of my daughter. Herb's letters are full of our little girl: 'How is she? Has she stopped wetting the bed? Does she talk about me?' I have to fill my letters with fake stories about her, for when I come home from the bank I find that if she wants to play outside without her sweater on, or if she wants candy, Herb's parents let her. I know Herb will notice the difference...
...have my own troubles, too. I have to explain when I'm half an hour late from the movie. But when I stay home we fight. So I'm just living until the day Herb comes back. We used to gripe about our house: the roof leaked, we needed new screens, and all that. Well, just give me any old house now. Anything, anything...
...Cockles has the record so far in Cowie Hall dates; practically every night, we'd say. Herb Wellings, in addition to his War Production ad libs, is getting other ideas also. They say that he may beat John White to the altar afrter...
...this winter are forwards Gerry Johnson of Newburyport High and the NROTC; Brewster Wolfe of Milton Academy and Lowell House; Jack Noble of Exeter and the V-12; Ronald Wright of Pawtucket High and the V-12; guards Clyde Kelsey. Jr., of Wadena High, Minnesota and the NROTC; and Herb Fritts, of Richmond Hill, New York and the NROTC