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...Pathetic." When Commander Smith first saw them, they had all had the benefit of a three-week ocean trip, and said they felt "much better." But they had common symptoms galore: headaches, sensitivity to sharp noises, periods of amnesia, tendency to get panicky, tense muscles, tremors, hands that shook when they tried to do anything. They were "frequently close to tears or very short-tempered." Men who formerly took pride in their ability to hold their liquor "found that a couple of short beers would make them cry like babies or want to fight everyone in sight...
Like any returning traveler, Franklin Roosevelt found the mailbox jammed, a desk littered with unanswered memos, a row of soured milk bottles on his doorstep. In his three-week absence from the White House the work had piled up-and oversights had taken their toll. To catch up he would now have to work overtime...
...student called up before the end of the period will receive "an equitable refund," but simultaneously Princeton officials are making plans for a second three-week session from March 1 to March 20 if conditions warrant...
...effort to meet the problems arising from the indefinite stay of the ERC at college, Princeton University has organized a program of intensive three-week courses, each equivalent to one course of a normal semester...
Last October Funnypaper Artist Al Capp turned his popular Li'l Abner, published in over 600 papers and top-flight among comic strips, into a three-week slapstick parody of Margaret Mitchell's famed best-seller Gone With The Wind (he called it Gone Wif the Wind). Said Capp: "I really went to town. It was swell...