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...edition of Godey's Lady's Book was a thing to be read, reread, laughed at, cried over. Plump, benign Louis A. Godey chatted monthly with his "fair readers," giving careful counsel and advice. When a correspondent asked the Publisher in Philadelphia on which side of a lady a gentleman should sit, Mr Godey advised the left, "for is it not closer to a lady's heart...
Doctors sometimes call a benign tumor a cancer. Other times they do not recognize a cancer until after the patient's death. The ratio of incorrect diagnoses is 10%. Every suspected case of cancer in a community should be referred to a central cancer bureau such as exist in Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia. So recommended Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan cancer specialist, last week. Those bureaus have clinical and pathological experts who review a cancer diagnosis before the surgeon operates or a radiologist burns away the excrescent tissues. Thus they can prevent many a useless operation, much needless suffering...
...smaller towns the scheme of life is not complete without the local unit banker?men like Gallic Harris of Franklin, Ky. Benign-faced, with a smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When...
...find out what the police would do if he distributed his circulars, and now he knows; they object very much to having circulars distributed, and have promised him a summons for next Thursday. He will doubtless get a nominal penalty, and the Transcript will come out with a benign editorial to the effect that Cohen is a bad boy but that time will teach him discretion. So Cohen will find himself not a martyr, but merely a "source of innocent merriment", which is not an agreeable position for a crusader...
Just then he noticed that the car that had caused his misfortune was occupied. A benign old lady leaned out the window and informed him that if only her husband were there he would be very glad to help him. Next it developed that her husband would not be back until dark, for he had left her there while he fished a nearby brook. She was going on to quote statistics about the length of time various friends of hers had been stuck in that same mud-hole when down the hill clattered a Ford bearing the local representative...