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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the divorce was complete. Candidate Wallace wrote his last piece for the NR, a meandering 13-column restatement of his life and thought: "Few men have been so privileged as I to see at close hand, and to act in, one of the great dramas of all times . . . The strenuous three months ahead will require my full energies. Moreover, the New Republic editors should be completely free to support . . . the candidate and party which most appeal to them ... I am bidding my faithful readers goodbye in one capacity, but I shall sooner or later be seeing them...
Louisville had other big radio plans. NBC, getting into the act, is broadcasting a nationwide course in contemporary U.S. literature from Louisville, with college credit available at first only to listeners of a local FM station. By fall, says NBC, a dozen other colleges will offer credit...
...N.E.A. convention asked President Truman for a special session of Congress to pass federal aid to education (a request that Harry Truman wasn't likely to act on). N.E.A. also wanted the U.S. to start a $10 billion school building program, and to fire 100,000 "undertrained" emergency elementary-school teachers...
...tomb" was the British phrase for it. When Sir William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...
Sign or Starve? Many doctors were unhappy about it. Last February the Brit ish Medical Association had voted 10 to 1 (TIME, March 1) against cooperating with the Act. But 21,341 out of 23,000 general practitioners had eventually signed up. To ease their pain, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan had held out a placebo: his government had no plans to make the doctors full-time civil servants. They would get a "base pay" of about $3.50 a year for each patient on their books. Estimated top income, with all extras, like obstetrics : $20,000. Estimated income...