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...fact or in name. In 1522. when some of his followers referred to themselves as Lutherans, he wrote: "Please do not use my name; do not call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians . . . The doctrine is not mine; I have not been crucified for anyone . . . Why should I, a miserable bag of worms, give my meaningless name to Christ's children?'' Only later, when Roman Catholics used the term as an insult, did Luther consent to let his name be applied to those who agreed with...
Dames & Comedy. Too much money was not always a problem; Mike Todd's personal finances, like an anesthetist's bag, alternately puffed and collapsed. Fifty years or so ago in Minnesota, when he was Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, son of a Polish rabbi, the family was poor. But before he was 20, he and his brother Frank had made and lost nearly $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate ventures. His later success as a Broadway producer ("I believe in giving the customers a meat-and-potatoes show. Dames and comedy") brought in big money almost as fast...
Unto the 72nd Generation. Finally, Researcher Enders picked a virus strain that had gone through 24 crops in human kidney cells and 28 in cells from the amniotic sac ("bag of waters"). By then, it would grow in eggs. He grew six crops that way and 14 in chick-cell cultures. With this end product he inoculated fresh, measles-free monkeys. The weakened virus lived a while in their throats but never multiplied in their blood. The monkeys developed antibodies which, months later, still gave protection. One major problem remained: to show that the weakened virus, which might be used...
...that he could not stand up to other youngsters. One day his father encouraged him: "You have the mind but not the body . . . You must make your body. It is hard drudgery, but I know you will do it." Theodore organized a gymnasium with horizontal bars and a punching bag on the second floor of the town house and set about to do just that...
...spur business, the Federal Reserve Board last week brought out the most potent anti-slump tonic in its bag of economic medicines. It cut by ½% the minimum cash reserves that must be kept by the Fed's 6,400 member banks to back demand deposits; minimum reserves were dropped to 19½% of deposits in New York and Chicago. 17½% in most other big cities and 11½% in "country" bank areas. This freed $500 million from reserves, and since each such dollar can generate up to $6 in loans, it could add close to $3 billion...