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...Europe it was total war. In the U. S. it was shock-the grim event had finally arrived. For Franklin Roosevelt, who had the benefit of forewarning from the U. S. diplomatic corps-he returned to Washington three days before the Nazi thrust-the shock was measurably cushioned. He had an opportunity before most other men to consider in the cold light of reason an even more momentous event: a change in the visible shape of things to come...
President can face-he did not choose to say in public. But as the psychological shock receded, all men had growing opportunity to see for themselves one new probability and many new possibilities-things which seemed fantastic a fortnight...
Cotton Ed garrumphed that he would not "sacrifice . . . the welfare of my State and Nation to be elected as a delegate . . ."; he would not be "a traitor in my own heart." For Cotton Ed Smith will never forget the ghastly shock of the hot day in June 1936, when he saw a Negro preacher offering the invocation at a Democratic National Convention session. In his view, Franklin Roosevelt is leading the party away from White Supremacy, and to Cotton Ed, White Supremacy is as real as the population of his beloved Lee County: White, 7,850, Negro...
...fluid. Many doctors believe that small amounts of surplus fluid must be drawn out to relieve pressure. that patients should be denied liquids. But Drs. Gross & Ehrlich consider drastic dehydration dangerous, achieve the same result in another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock. The glucose, thicker than body fluids, sucks out fluid from the tissues through osmotic pressure. thus reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During the first...
...there is one bright side to the picture. Remember what a shock it was the first time you saw Mickey Rooney, the sprite and very juvenile Puck of a few years back, pitching in a parked car with some uncomfortably adolescent bit of fluff. Well, just imagine how much more horrible it would be to see a slinky Shirley sipping her Mumms Extra Dry under the subdued lights of the Stork or the Ritz...