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...Swiss parents, Henry Sigerist was brought to the U.S. and a Johns Hopkins professorship in 1931 by the late grand old man of medicine, William Henry Welch, first dean of Johns Hopkins' Medical School. To most U.S. physicians, Sigerist is best known as the nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings - both medical...
...Fuller got his expected pin in 1:27 of the second period. Harvard's Pete Knox and Al Zellner lost the 128 and 155-pound classes, Knox by a decision and Zellner by a fall. Knox's opponent, Frank Ferris, was meet captain for the Bruins and Probably their ablest wrestler...
From Britain: Few Americans know the U.S. as well as shy, crinkly-haired Robin J. Cruikshank, one of London's ablest journalists (he is a director of the Liberal News Chronicle). Few Britons, in & out of Government, are as devoted to fostering better Anglo-American relations. Six-footer Cruikshank, the News Chronicle's U.S. correspondent from 1928 to 1936, was one of the few British newsmen who gave the U.S. serious coverage, did not write about it as if it were an extension of Coney Island peopled mostly by tycoons, cinema cutups and political crackpots. He married...
From the U.S.: James B. (for Barren) Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the Congress for Industrial Organizations. Slim, 35-year-old Jim Carey is one of U.S. labor's ablest men, a scrappy advocate of labor's responsibility (in all countries) in shaping policies for peace. He was labor's representative on several wartime Government boards and is one of its most experienced men in its international fields. He represented the C.I.O. at the London and Paris conferences which set up the World Federation of Trade Unions, was a consultant at the United Nations conference at San Francisco...
...part of this, stockholders could thank the general high level of U.S. retailing. But they could also thank round-faced little Fred Lazarus, 62, ablest of Ohio's famed Lazarus brothers, Simon, Robert and Jeffrey. When Fred Lazarus stepped into Federated's presidency in 1945, the organization was little more than a device by which its five members,*through cross-ownership of each other's stock, protected themselves against regional slumps...