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...technique disturbed the actors, who threatened to quit, and the public, which disliked the show's left wing sentiments. One patriotic gentleman rose from his seat when he heard part of an Earl Browder speech. He muttered a bit about the Reds and started singing The Star Spangled Banner...
...history had a medical development been big, instantaneous news over a large part of the world. Such a momentous item as Fleming's penicillin moldered for years in musty libraries before laymen heard of it. Last week's report on the Salk vaccine was good for banner headlines everywhere, and was covered by the press as massively as the end of a major war-which it was. Ironically, poliomyelitis has always been a relatively uncommon disease with a comparatively low death rate.* Polio is actually less of a public-health problem than rheumatic fever and some forms...
...real exaggeration is the result of many things--a forty-year old myth, a troubled era, banner headlines in the Boston papers, a senator's unchecked charges, a few prominent names, a book or two, hate, and a little jealousy...
...when a Communist was appointed "teaching counselor" were twice as big as those when President Pusey was elected in 1953. Last year when a rumor came from Washington that McCarthy would travel to Boston to investigate subversive activity in the metropolitan area, one Boston paper ran a seven-column banner: "McCarthy Goes to Harvard to Clean Up Reds...
...Miller, professor of American Literature, has just returned from Seattle, but he is not predicting any final answers. After talking informally with professors at the Seattle institution, Miller concludes that the vote of censure "amounts to a considerable victory over President Schmitz." But he points out that despite a banner headline in the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer--"UW Faculty Senate Acts to End Controversy on Oppenheimer"--the debate is far from finished. Although the resolution in the faculty senate expressed faith in Schmitz, it also in effect warned him he could not again overrule faculty decisions so blatantly...