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...Colorado the crowds were warm, the party leaders cool. Some party men, like Governor John C. Vivian, were cautiously "open-minded"; others, like shock-haired ex-Governor Ralph Carr, who had seconded Willkie's nomination in 1940, were hostile. Across the border in Wyoming, the reception was different: roly-poly Jim Griffith, State G.O.P. chairman, led the cheers at a banquet in the old Plains Hotel, where the crowd spilled out from the banquet hall into the hotel lobby and an adjoining drugstore...
Around the Sub Base at Pearl Harbor, "Mush" Morton and the Wahoo were a legend. Mush, Kentucky-born, was a solid man with a shock of blond hair, a wrestler's shoulders and a jaw like a boulder. The Wahoo was a lean, sinister submarine...
...truce was in sight. Best hope for a compromise came on the subsidy issue. Oklahoma's able, shock-haired Mike Monroney proposed an amendment (which showed surprising strength in a House vote) to continue subsidies until Oct. 1, 1944, and to make them revocable at any earlier time at the first sign of a general wage increase. Mike Monroney's solution may yet be adopted. It had virtues: 1) it would tie farm prices and wages together; 2) it would put the subsidy issue squarely into the 1944 campaign, where both Congress and the Administration seem to think...
...about her husband (see p. 69), published in This Week a short story about a scared soldier. Apropos her husband's difficulties, she. recalled: "I think I'm a good mother, but I can remember all too well punishing my children in the heat of disappointment or shock and wishing later I hadn't. ... He made a mistake-and it can't be undone-I just hope they won't kick him to death while he's down." Clifton Fadiman, in his last month as The New Yorker's book critic, was reported...
Wide-Open Wounds. Major Ascroft finds only three valid reasons for treating head-wound cases at the front: 1) severe shock (but "shock is seldom severe in head wounds"), which makes it impossible to move a patient at once; 2) need for immediate surgery to relieve pressure on the brain; 3) no possibility of reaching a base hospital in 72 hours. For such cases he recommends "an operation of expedience"-a cleanup after which the wound is left wide-open, protected only by a plaster-of-paris bandage. A diagram of the wound may be drawn on the bandage...