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...Wolf Pack. Two years ago this week Karl Doenitz declared that "it makes no difference to the present-day German U-boat fleet' whether British ships sail alone or are convoyed. . . . The truth is that the danger increases for neutral ships when they are members of a British convoy." But as U.S. strength showed up in British convoys, Karl Doenitz changed his mind, shrewdly withdrew a large part of his U-boat fleet into his native Baltic, emerged with a new, radical offensive technique known to the Germans as the Rudelsystem, to the Allies as the "wolf pack...
...demands of short-sighted expediency. The pre-medical students now in college represent long years of study even now. It would be criminal to stop their training now that they are nearing its end. We must remember our last war, when pseudo-medical attendants produced thousands of our present-day dope addicts by shooting them full of morphine whenever they cried out while lying wounded in Army hospitals. Britain learned her lesson when she slackened off on her medical schools in the first rush to arms and then had to move fast to get them back on a normal basis...
...train rural pastors to meet present-day social and economic problems on the farms just as the Schools of Social Justice (TIME, Aug. 25) are already training priests to meet the-social and economic problems in industrial areas...
Many a thoughtful Catholic is worried by present-day results of this old policy. From 1920 to 1938, the birthrate of half-Catholic, largely urban Massachusetts fell from 23.7 to 13.8. The rate in one-third-Catholic New York City fell from 23.4 to 14.4. Parochial-school enrollment of elementary pupils has slumped on almost exactly the same curve as public-school attendance since 1930-despite increased church pressure to have Catholics send their children to church schools...
...passel of furtive folk vigorously committing homicide to get hold of a bejeweled statuette of a falcon may sound old-hat to present-day cinemagoers, but Director John Huston makes their melodramatic activities as immediate as a shot in a dark room. His characters keep close to Hammett's originals, who in turn are so close to real life that what is constantly about to happen to them (and often does) becomes at times downright unbearable...