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This week, in And Now to Live Again (D. Appleton-Century, $1.75), Betsey Barton describes how a badly maimed person feels after the first shock of injury has passed, how such a person can make the agonizingly slow mental adjustment, sometimes more difficult than that of people deformed at birth. She hopes that her book will help teach the families of wounded men what to expect, what...
After then, we never knew when the roads would be empty or full. Some [troops] stayed twelve hours, others two weeks, others three days; we just didn't know. The first crowd was a shock. They were untidy, insolent; their "pin-ups," which they plastered all over their lorries and guns, were pretty hot, and the remarks painted underneath, and the names of lorries, gave offense. We thought "So this is the American Army." The next batch was duly snubbed, poor fellows, and although they were well-behaved we refused to thaw. The third batch was a fine example...
...Bituminous Surface), it consists of a layer of cloth between two layers of tar-soaked paper. It can be carried in one-tenth the airplane space and laid, by machine, almost twice as fast. Spread over a rolled earth surface, the durable, water-repellent covering sustains the heat and shock of landings with little damage, bogs down only when subsurface moisture is extreme...
Amram Scheinfeld spent five years studying and assembling what modern scientists have discovered about sex. Some of their findings upset established notions: e.g., that women are more likely to be hysterical than men; during the bombing of London there were 70% more shock cases among civilian men than women. Another myth: that primitive women bear children as easily as animals do; actually they take as long to recuperate as civilized mothers...
...uncountable; no stadium could have held it; the estimates ranged as high as 500,000 and none less than 200,000.* To that crowd Wendell Willkie made a great, an eloquent-and an unpolitical-speech. It was poorly delivered; his word-slurring, Hoosier-twang delivery was a shock to citizens used to the sophisticated fluency of Mr. Roosevelt's radio voice. But that speech was the expression of a good American's will to freedom-the keystone of his character, and the root of his antipathy to the New Deal...