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Spanking is one way of forcing a baby to breathe and live. Last week Baby UNO got a sharp whack across its little red fundament. The slap was a demand that it investigate the "interference of the Soviet Union, through the medium of their officials and armed forces, in the internal affairs of Iran...
...free to express themselves." ¶ The number of Japanese magazines has increased from 32 to 306. ¶ Among the new radio programs: The Man on the Street, The Woman's Hour, The Voice of the People. ¶ The theater, which during the war was "solely a militarist propaganda medium," has been "given liberal themes from which new educational plays can be drawn." (Added MacArthur sadly: "'Liberal' means saying something, however little, against war or for democracy. No truly liberal scripts have appeared yet.") ¶ More than 20 political parties have begun campaigning, with no topics barred...
...apparently a well-established rule that the quality which makes plays successful on Broadway is largely lost when those plays are transferred to the medium of motion pictures. Columbia's adaptation of "Snafu" is no exception to the rule, though it is a more faithful duplication of the original than is usually the case...
With the baby's heart exposed, he could see the great vessels rising from it like pipes from a furnace. He selected a medium-sized artery that normally carries blood to the head and arm, clamped it to prevent loss of blood, cut it through and tied off the useless upper end. The lower end he pulled downward and stitched into a hole he had made in the side of a pulmonary artery, thus bypassing the pulmonary artery's narrow entrance. While he was making the stitches, the left pulmonary artery had to be clamped for half...
...literary beachhead. His brief (122-page) book, December Book-of-the-Month Club co-choice,* is the first novel by a combat author to describe the seizure of a Pacific island from the Japanese. It is the first time that such an action has been narrated in a medium which looks like unrhymed verse but which Author Bowman stoutly insists is sprung prose.† Prose or verse, it is the best form in which to tell Author Bowman's story-the thoughts that pass through a soldier's head during one hour of battle...