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...commutes by plane between Manhattan and his Southwest railroad. He has traveled over every mile of the 3,293-mile Katy system. On inspection trips he fires a barrage of questions at Katy railmen, once stopped his special train at a lonely station to shake hands with a legless dispatcher...
...Scouts, students, a uniformed midget and a legless man directed traffic in Guatemala City, which three weeks ago was the most heavily policed community in the Hemisphere. The Revolutionary Junta (Captain Jacobo Arbenz, Jorge Toriello, Major Francisco Xavier Arana) surveyed the smoking ruins of San José Fortress, whose guns had so often fired on the people of Guatemala, decided to make the place a children's park. Fifteen more generals fled to Mexico...
Pale, intent men lay on white cots in the San Diego Naval Hospital last week listening with radio headsets to the news from the Pacific. They were casualties of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Palau, and they understood the cost of victory. They were armless, legless, diseased, blind. They knew that more would join them...
Armless and legless young soldiers, learning to use artificial limbs at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, dread going into the streets. One soldier told the New York Times, "We meet three kinds of people. Some are intelligent enough not to stare and ask questions. Some are well meaning and want to do something, but they always say the wrong thing. And then there are the long-nosed gossips who ask us fool questions and try to pry." The veterans asked the U.S. to help them back into a normal existence by observing two rules: 1) don't stare...
...Professor Bogomoletz last week told a Red Star reporter that "at present, the anti-reticular-cytotoxic serum has been widely and successfully used in all hospitals and clinics for curing the consequences of war injuries." Red Star carried stories about men now at the front who would have been legless or armless but for ACS. The professor says the serum does not cost much and is easy to make (Russia made 3,000,000 doses in 1943); he recommends that Russia's allies use it for bullet-caused fractures...