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...Stout Memorial Hospital, was for 15 years on the best of terms with the Maryknoll priests and sisters whose malaria, skin ulcers and other illnesses he treated. Even during the war years, Dr. Wallace stayed in China and kept on with his work, which Maryknoll's Father Thomas Brack last week called "a vocation of sacrifice and love...
Last week the U.S. State Department announced that Dr. Wallace had died in prison on Feb. 10. To the New York Times, Catholic Father Brack wrote a letter of tribute to his Baptist friend...
...Promise. Brack Lee, at 51, is as ruggedly independent an the pioneers who settled in the shadows of the bleak Wasatch range. A 32nd degree Mason and member of no church in predominantly (74%) Mormon Utah, he had defeated Mormon Democrat Herbert Maw in 1948 by promising to run the state just the way he had run his real estate business in the coal-mining town of Price...
...last week, Brack Lee's trail was littered with the bones of sacred cows. Early this year, he flatly refused state funds to hire more help for veterans' affairs, although he was a World War I infantryman himself. "I favor all help possible to injured veterans," said he, "but veterans who returned without physical or mental damage should deem it a privilege to have served their country, to say nothing of the experience and travel they gained...
...Brack Lee's term has two more years to run. Despite the doubts of politicians and newsmen, he thinks his kind of small businessmen's government will get him reelected. If it does, after he has alienated just about every pressure group in the state, politicians will be flocking to Salt Lake for lessons. If he doesn't get reelected, he knows that at least his methods work in the real estate business back in Price...