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...G.O.P. in Minnesota gave out no wild cheers over this sudden recruit. Young silo-shaped Governor Harold E. Stassen, architect of Minnesota's new G.O.P., had not planned any rooms in the Republican house for guest stars. He had just enough for his own. Stassen had already sent to the Senate one of them, Joe Ball, a rangy newspaperman with a stomachful of courage...
...Germans, pressing through Egypt and the Caucasus, had compelled Britain and the U.S. to begin, hurriedly and late, the building of a preventive army in Iraq and Persia under General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson (TIME, Aug. 31). The British already had some forces there, but the sudden appointment of General Wilson and the feverish reinforcement were evidence that, in effect, a new army was being created for a new front...
...mountains offered the Red Army a magnificent chance to stop the Germans, if, instead of depending passively on terrain to do the job, they made aggressive use of their greater knowledge of hidden valleys and obscure roadways, of their opportunities for ambush and sudden flank attack, of the fact that German air power is less useful in the mountains than on level battlefields...
Vaguely people feel that this sudden shift is somehow due to the war, to a longing to escape through music from realities that have become so harsh and drab, to a revived sense of the nearness of death which lies at the root of the appreciation as well as the creation of great music. But whatever the reasons for the change, the facts were startling enough...
Many people are allergic or sensitive to chemicals such as turpentine, T.N.T., formaldehyde, fulminate of mercury, picrates, synthetic dyes, etc. Slight exposure to them is often harmless, but prolonged exposure or a sudden "overdose" may cause the worker to become sensitized, so that thenceforth even slight exposure produces eruptions or scaliness on his hands, arms, face, body. In one summer half the workers in a Pennsylvania plastics factory had dermatitis when they became sensitized to the formaldehyde in the material...