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...Benign, witty Sir William Henry Beveridge by last week was second only to Winston Churchill as Britain's most popular man. Britons had bought more than 200,000 full texts of his plan for post-war social security. The Ministry of Information was bringing out a threepenny Beveridge Report in Brief and every Army officer was to be supplied with this brief for the instruction of rankers. Sir William's Plan had become so popular with the people that the political parties were falling over each other proclaiming its principles their...
Organizer of Standard's medical department is benign Yaleman Dr. Willard J. Denno, 67, who first came to the company in 1918. He was soon joined by Dr. Alvin Schoenleber, 58, who learned tropical medical problems in Panama while the Big Ditch was being dug. When these two began their work, industrial medicine had a bad name. Only medical misfits went into the field. Largely through the efforts of Drs. Denno and Schoenleber, industrial medicine now attracts first-class doctors from all over...
...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...
They are proving out. "We have only one trouble here," explained lean, benign Don C. Faith, the Fort's colonel-commandant. "They work too hard." Repeatedly the meticulously soft-spoken colonel has warned the WAACs to slow down, to budget their energy...
Phase No. 2 took place at Mayor Orden's "five-room palace." By the fire sat Dr. Winter, the town historian and physician, "bearded and simple and benign." "What's the Mayor doing?" he asked the butler. "Dressing to receive the Colonel, sir. . . . Madame is trimming the hair out of his ears. It tickles...