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...trouble with the wonder drug penicillin is that it stays only a brief hour or so in the bloodstream, is then lost, chiefly in the urine. Two ways of making the precious drug do double-duty were announced last week...
...York Herald Tribune's Jack Tait: "Correspondents have been told that they must confine the bulk of their activities to coverage of Ninth Air Force news [or] seek reassignment elsewhere. ... It seemed inconceivable that one group engaged in this war would consider publicity for itself more precious than giving the U.S. the story of this...
...little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie promptly sweetens everybody's temper with a strong plea for letting youth, inexperience and lonely soldiers do as much for every U.S. home...
They had been moved out last November. Farmers grumbled, drove cows and horses inland. Grannies whimpered, packed their shabby, precious gewgaws in cardboard cartons, rode away triumphantly in limousines provided by the Government. Vicars did their vicarish best to spread cheer, dismantled stained glass windows with leaden hands. Then U.S. troops moved in, practiced landings with tanks under live shells. Those Americans are in Normandy...
Something Precious. "The cook shack was nothing but a piece of canvas meant to keep the rain off the stove on which hot rations were being prepared. . . . There was just one other piece of canvas in the picture. . . . It had a regular outline and apparently was something exceptionally precious, something which even in the circumstances had to be kept dry. We had just picked up our chow and were sitting around miserably starting to eat, when from this piece of canvas came the sound of music. It was strange music. It was jive-American jive. I never did find...