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George Oliver May is a plump, urbane, British-born gentleman who winters in Manhattan and summers in Southport, Conn., collects old English silver, dislikes publicity, has a daughter married to Barron Collier Jr. and is one of the world's foremost authorities on corporate finance and taxation. In Manhattan last week Mr. May attended a dinner celebrating his silver jubilee as senior partner of the potent accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. In Washington last week Mr. May, who was a Wartime adviser at the Treasury Department, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee as a disinterested citizen, presented...
...result of assisting at the birth of an Eskimo baby, Dr. Rabinowitch suggests that "our obstetricians have something to learn from the Eskimo about the mechanics of labor. The child is born with the mother in a squatting position. She is supported in this position by three women. . . . Birth apparently is not a very painful matter judging from the expression of this woman as I watched her for some time. . . . She was in labor for about twelve hours only. Except for the administration of some castor oil and i c.c. of pituitrin, my activities, as obstetrician, consisted, as the word...
Father of the quadruplets, a German-born carpenter who two weeks ago had obtained a $20-a-week railroad shop job after 18 months' unemployment, was far from pleased to learn that the number of his offspring had risen from two to six overnight. Sourly he observed: "That's big news." Then he went back to work, angry because he was an hour late...
...Washington Sportsman Winston Frederick Churchill Guest asked the District of Columbia Supreme Court to order the Bureau of Immigration to grant him a "derivative citizenship." In his petition the ranking U. S. poloist stated that, although he was born in England in 1906, his mother, Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, never swore allegiance to the British Crown, separated from her British husband in 1919 and returned to the U. S. Having voted, sworn allegiance to the U. S. when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Yale, run for the New York State Senate in 1934, Poloist Guest was dismayed...
...influence over the discussions of an international congregation. Citizens of democratic countries are becoming increasingly huffy and high-handed with dictatorial governments like Fascism and Naziism, but to what end? Autocracies, disagreeable as they may seem to a liberal people, must be dealt with. We who have been born and bred in democratic traditions are wont to treat European dictatorships like provisional governments merely waiting for the day of democratic revelation...