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...British captain in Cairo ripped open a cablegram from England, goggled in mute horror at the message: "Son born." Frantic inquiries at the cable office disclosed that Form Message 185 had been substituted for No. 85 ("Receiving letters occasionally"). The error made a difference to the captain: he had not seen his wife in two years...
...confession, deaf-mute penitents are given a printed list of common sins, mark those they wish to confess, hand the paper to the priest. He writes the penance and instructions on the paper, then returns it. Others who wish to see him outside the confessional go to the rectory parlor and "whisper" their problems. A mute "whispers" by shielding his hand inside his partly opened coat as he signs. A woman makes signs behind her purse...
...Army would admit only the obvious - that he somehow got a change of clothing and faked identification papers. When traveling he played deaf-mute or pretended to be asleep to fend off the curious. The rest of Cadet Wissenback's story will have to wait: other U.S. flyers may be wandering in Europe today, using the same methods...
...greatest revelation was America's unpreparedness for war, its most satisfactory aspect was, v the U.S. ability to act in the face of disaster. Today Pearl Harbor is one of the most strongly defended fortresses on earth. The Arizona still sits on the bottom near Ford Island, a mute monument which many a sailor apostrophizes thus: "You bastards, you haven't paid enough for that yet." The ugly, rusty keels of the Oklahoma and the old Utah are still turned up to the bright Hawaiian sun, just as they rolled bottom-side up a year...
West Coast deaf-mute supply chief is redheaded, ham-handed William B. Sain, a wireless technician and diemaker who, aware of the dreary and dim cult lives of most of his 2,000 fellow Los Angeles deaf-mutes, decided after Pearl Harbor to equip them to help the war effort, persuaded the U.S. Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they...