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...under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals, never the other way. On leaving at night, the worker will shed his laboratory gear, wash, examine his body for ticks in a six-sided mirror, put on his civvies and go home feeling as safe as any germ-worker...
...countryside. Canton was all but moribund. Shanghai's masses were desperately hungry; 1,500,000 of her workers were jobless, and 20,000 prostitutes prowled her streets. But Shanghai still had her factories; once their wheels rolled, the metropolis would hum again and Shanghai might well be the mirror of the nation's revival...
...soldiers in Britain learned to like a leggy, blond comic-strip character named Jane. Each day in the London Daily Mirror, Artist W. Norman Pett found some way of making Jane lose all, or almost all her clothes (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). He was pretty inventive about it: Jane would catch her skirt in a bicycle sprocket, in revolving machinery, in a plane fall (see cut) or a pratfall...
...years ago the New York Daily Mirror's Broadway reporter, Ted Friend, set out to make a big-city newspaperman's dream come true. Tired of the high pressure life, he bought a country weekly in Susanville, Calif., and went west envisioning a soft life, a house of many hammocks for lazy lounging (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943). This week, a sadder but wiser man, he sold out; editing a weekly, he had discovered, left little time for lounging. Dragging his hammocks behind him, he is moving on to a ranch near San Francisco, where he says he will...
...Daily News doubled its customary 24 news broadcasts a day. The Post, Times, Daily Mirror and Journal-American all aired special news programs, as well as some of their daily features. Network outlets stepped up their news coverage...