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Cutter Laboratories, born in the backroom of the late Edward Cutter's Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...forget... Perhaps if Professor Schlesinger were to expose himself to the common sense of the electorate for a change he might find that you can't fool the people all the time. But then, I don't suppose that is as dramatic as trying to organize things from the backroom. William E. W. Gowen...
...stood alone in the active Senate fight for censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. They were also alone in defending their personal honor against the attacks of Joe and his cohorts. The rest of the Senate sat silent-or in the case of several top Republican leaders, worked for a backroom deal that would save McCarthy...
...point, she suspected that the local native trader was running a backroom brothel in his shop: behind a curtain, "there was laughter and low moaning and exclamations of surprise and delight." As it turned out. the trader was simply charging admission for a look at U.S. magazines. The Atlantic Monthly "is not worth even one peanut with a worm inside." The New Yorker and Esquire were in some demand. "Sometimes a copy of TIME was acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE...
...libel suit, reporters must name their sources or lose their right to make a defense. The case grew out of a libel suit brought by Gordon Wismer, onetime Attorney General of British Columbia, against Blair Fraser, Ottawa editor of Maclean's magazine, who had written an article on backroom political shenanigans in B.C. Under the cloak of privilege, Editor Fraser had stubbornly refused to name his sources. Now, unless he changes his mind, the court will have little to do except assess the damages. Cried Vancouver's Province: The ruling amounts to "tearing away all the reporter...