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Anti-Nazi La Prensa, noting that Secretary Hull had made his charge in a press interview, deplored "diplomatic debate . . . outside normal procedure," observed that it exposed a statesman to "the danger of saying more than he would say in direct contacts...
...shock therapy works: some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental hospital...
...sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School. At 20 he was teaching mathematics in Texas' Rice Institute...
...more or less conventional war correspondent, covering the news as others did. The change began one day in Africa when the press corps was invited to meet Admiral Darlan. Scripps-Howard cabled him to be sure to attend. He was hurrying across an airfield to the interview when a swarm of Stukas swooped down, began splattering bullets around him. He dived into a ditch just behind a G.I. When the strafing was over he tapped his companion on the shoulder and said, "Whew, that was close, eh?" There was no answer. The soldier was dead...
Pyle sat through the interview in a daze, went back to his tent and brooded for hours. Finally he cabled his New York office that he could not write the Darlan story. Instead he wrote about the stranger who had died in the ditch beside him. For days he talked of giving up and going home. But when the shock wore off, he knew for sure that his job was not with the generals and their strategems but with the little onetime drugstore cowboys, clerks and mechanics who had no one else to tell their stories...