“The chief danger of an air raid, he said, was splintered glass
\n from windows. Thus, when one hears the siren one should get a
\n drink, lie down on a couch and put two pillows over
\n oneself–one pillow over the eyes and the other over the
\n groin…if the eyes or groin were injured, life was not worth
\n living. It was good advice for any groundling in the age
\n before atom bombs; and I took it.”<\/p>\n
– Theodore White, recalling advice given him by cryptographer
\n Herbert Yardley during White’s reporting stint in China during
\n the early 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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