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Walls vanished. Men vanished. Living, clothes and flesh torn off, ran screaming, blindly, through an eruption of debris and live steam. In company-owned houses outside the gates, their families were knocked off their feet, and window panes disintegrated. Passengers in a TWA stratoliner, 6,000 ft. up and 20 miles away, saw "huge pillars of white smoke ... a bright flame at the base." In towns 125 miles away people felt the shock...
...patients did not agree. Neither did his wife. On his next call she went with him, examined the patient's symptoms as he diagnosed them. When a wound needed stitching, Mrs. Clack went at it like a neat housewife at a torn shirt. The doctor ran his fingers over the finished job, pronounced: "I couldn't have done better myself...
...term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the big Catholic nobles, U. S. readers will have little trouble understanding the age immediately following the death of Henri IV. Then, as in France before the Nazi invasion, the problem was to save a nation torn between two powerful internal forces whose factional interests meant more to them than France. The man who forced unity upon these conflicting groups and saved France was Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career is the greatest paradox in paradoxical French politics. A prince of the church, Richelieu revived and carried...
...better or worse politically, he had refused to make national defense a political football, had saved the U. S. from being emotionally torn apart in a way that would have halted all action on the biggest U. S. problem. With Willkie approving, not even in the U.S. Senate was a hullabaloo raised over the deal which brought the U. S. eight badly needed bases...
Foreign Cattle. The veterinarians were worried over horses and cattle in war-torn countries. Dr. Cassius Way of Manhattan, an internationally noted horse doctor, told his colleagues that thousands of fine breeding and milk cows in the Low Countries had been slaughtered by the invading Germans. Next winter, he prophesied, hordes of animals will fall sick, may transmit many of their diseases to human beings...