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...response, Dr. Engel retorted that a wound or a burn is a natural response to physical injury, but that does not make the wounded or burned part "normal." Major difference, he indicated, is that a burned patient goes to his doctor to have the burn treated, whereas the grief-stricken patient, if he goes to the doctor at all, may not tell about his grief. He is more likely to complain of physical symptoms. Yet these, Dr. Engel said, may have been touched off by the grief. Even the folklore notion that some people die of grief...
...quickly cast off, was towed out of the danger area. Firemen worked close to the burning vessel. Then it exploded again, sending a shower of death through the crowd on the dock-and just missing Premier Castro, who had come whirling up in his helicopter to hover near the stricken ship. The initial counts put the dead at 75 to 100, the injured at more than...
Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. Grant's astonishing evolution from a faltering, fear-stricken officer in his first Civil War battles to a masterful commander two years later, told with the author's customary skill...
Influenza and related ills had millions of Americans by the throat last week. Since flu is not a disease that must be reported to health authorities, no accurate tally of the victims was possible. But it was estimated that 2,000,000 had been stricken in the Los Angeles area since New Year's, that 1,000,000 were laid up last week (500,000 of them in the city of Los Angeles, an equal number in surrounding communities). Across the nation, outbreaks were spotty. Boston reported up to 20% of schoolchildren absent. Pittsburgh was hard hit. Cleveland...
...heroine is Baroness Milli von Kailern, 23, unmarried and disenchanted with life in the Socialist, poverty-stricken Vienna of 1926. When her love for stuffy Prince Wieland Traun is rebuffed, Milli despairingly gives herself to another young man, in what may well be the most tepidly described seduction in contemporary literature: "One day in their flat, when his mother was out for a couple of hours only, he began to undress me . . . That I was a virgin surprised...