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Trucker, a left-footed punter, will also share kicking chores with Captain Dick Clasby and Paul Samborski. Samborski was elevated to the 'A' team to fill in for Bob Gremp and Brit Denaldson, both of whom were injured in the scrimmage with the varsity Tuesday...
Gorer suggests that this and other Brit' ish traits need psychological study. Then, with the eyes of his countrymen upon him, Gorer bows hurriedly out of the room. Says he: "I hope that this work will be undertaken in the not too distant future...
This week, in Briton Hadden: A Biography of the Co-Founder of TIME (236 pp.,Farrar, Straus, $3), Busch, a first cousin of Hadden and now a LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...
...Revolution on, Pratt thinks, the basis of U.S. military success has been the well-tempered amateur squinting down a rifle barrel. "Don't fire till you can see the whites of their eyes" was plain common sense to colonials facing the parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition that included...
Sign or Starve? Many doctors were unhappy about it. Last February the Brit ish Medical Association had voted 10 to 1 (TIME, March 1) against cooperating with the Act. But 21,341 out of 23,000 general practitioners had eventually signed up. To ease their pain, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan had held out a placebo: his government had no plans to make the doctors full-time civil servants. They would get a "base pay" of about $3.50 a year for each patient on their books. Estimated top income, with all extras, like obstetrics : $20,000. Estimated income...