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Airmen in Britain, main base of the air offensive against Germany, had to swallow a bitter pill. The war was not being fought their way. They were not, after all, waging the all-out campaign which they looked forward to a few months ago. Instead of fighting for victory from the air, they were fighting toward further victory by the ground armies...
Leeches for Fighters. In his saddened shop, a remodeled brownstone house on upper Lexington Avenue, twelve expert elixir and pill makers kept busy filling a stream of prescriptions which has now passed the 1,280,000 mark. Unlike most modern drugstores, J. Leon Lascoff & Son sells nothing but chemicals, prescriptions, biologicals and a few special cosmetics. Within these limits, Lascoff's pride is to keep everything ("if we don't have it, nobody does")-e.g., a large, dignified, white porcelain jar of leeches, a commodity still in some demand for pugilists' shiners, stands just inside the door...
...dinner were Mayor Corcoran, William M. Hogan Jr., vice chairman of the city council; City Manager John B. Atkinson, and Councilmen Francis L. Sennott, Hyman Pill, Michael A. Sullivan, Marcus Morton Jr., Thomas M. McNamara, Sgt. Edward A. Crane and ex-Mayor John D. Lynch. President Conant, Treasurer William M. Claflin Jr., and the following members of the Harvard Corporation were present: Henry L. Shattuck, Dr. Roger I. Lee, Grenville Clark, and Charles A. Coolidge...
...drugstore pill-eater can ensue health by taking the entire list, but if he is to buy wisely he has much to learn of both chemistry and medicine. As with the patent medicines of a former day, the greatest harm is the waste of money...
...south, along the Velkhov River, where Germans had lost more than 2,000 men in a savage attack in one sector Monday, Russian artillery blasted the German lines and smashed 17 pill boxes and block houses, the midnight communique said as recorded here from Moscow radio...