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Some charter members of Post 591: an 18-year-old sailor wounded by shrapnel (South Pacific); a young private with punctured ear drums (North Africa); a paratrooper who injured his back in a practice jump; an ex-National Guardsman suffering from shock and war neurosis; a 45-year-old World War I veteran who was drafted again for World War II and served in a medical battalion until discharged...
...runs only half as much risk of death from disease and wounds as in World War I. One of the great advances has been in the field of blood plasma. Plasma has been split into several useful components: albumins, which proved even better than whole plasma in treating shock; blood-clotting factors (prothrombin and fibrinogen), which look very promising in the treatment of hemorrhage and burns; antibodies, which have been tried as injections against virus diseases, have already worked well in preventing measles...
...years of journalism, 100 days awaiting execution in a Franco prison, six years of watching prewar Leftism crumble under the shock of totalitarian war, Hungarian-born Author Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) has learned to lift himself above the battle. Last week in the New York Times, he wrote that the great events of today are only events in an "interregnum," that an age is dying. Said Koestler...
Honesty and Fuzzy Focus. In the course of this film, fear, combat shock, trickery and brutality on both sides are shown more frankly, with less cinematic salad dressing, than in any U.S. film to date. Yet Guadalcanal Diary must be counted as much a failure as a success...
...house of the conquered). Engineer Aubrey Wall, who will not seduce Gisele, but who kicks an opium-drugged servant to death, is one Englishman for whom the prewar burden of empire was too much. Examining the canals he had built, "his nervous system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain...