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When the Massachusetts Medical Society bade Dr. Robert E. Lincoln resign for treating everything from sinus trouble to cancer with whiffs of his unproved baoteriophages, Lincoln refused and promised "a damned good fight" (TIME, March 17). Last week Dr. Lincoln gave up the fight. Possibly forestalling a move to expel him, he resigned with a blast at the society: "Unprofessional, undemocratic, arbitrarily unfair and un-American...
...dropped into a bowl slips of paper with the names of provinces; each governor stepped forward and drew a new province. Like all ministers, the old nobleman was plagued with friends, men-of-influence, patriots and toadies who came to him with one proposal or another. His duty bade him say no to these schemes, but he was such a kindly fellow (in some respects) that he could not bear to speak the word. He would call in his two-year-old granddaughter and repeat the proposal to her, in front of the visitor. Since she was a well-brought...
...ancestors, a hamlet named Kutow in Kwangtung Province. Sin-shee Jang was an old-country woman: her feet had been bound, and she liked the quiet scenes of her girlhood. Furthermore, in Kutow she owned a 14-room brick house and was a woman of wealth and importance. She bade her five Americanized sons goodbye, and sailed for home...
Harry Truman, wan and weary, throttled his calendar back to idling speed last week as the hour grew closer for his departure for Key West, Fla. and five weeks' vacation. He delivered his speech on world disarmament before the television cameras, bade formal farewell to India's Ambassador Madame Pandit (who is going home to stand for Parliament), and rambled and reminisced his way through three days' worth of pleasant ceremonial chores...
During the closing scene of Brattle Theatre's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" three centaurs marched in with candelabras of Roman candles. Amid the fireworks, Puck told the audience to think it "had but slumber'd here," bade it good night, and sunk through the stage...