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...Pampering. The doctors, four from Britain, two from the U.S. (Colonel Elliot Carr Cutler and Colonel Loyal Davis), one from Canada, visited hospitals in Moscow and at the Vyazma front, talked with surgeons and patients. They were enthusiastic about Russian medical efficiency, though for diplomatic reasons all refused to be quoted directly. But highlights from their trip have been reported in their speeches and interviews and in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal...
...Republican Convention in 1940, Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr seconded the nomination of Wendell Willkie for President...
Last week ex-Governor Carr told the Portland Oregonian: "I don't think that Willkie can be nominated [by the Republicans] . . . that Willkie himself believes that he is a Republican [or] believes in the principles of the Republican Party. . . . He is a man of impulse...
...Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing a prime archeological find, he saw what he thought might be the prize of the Hudson Valley region. Some items...
Work Horse. New Orleans proved less seductive than New Haven. Judah got a job with a notary, studied law in his spare time. Admitted to the bar, he promptly married Natalie St. Martin, a Creole girl with "the voice of a prima donna." She liked parties in the Vieux Carré. Judah preferred to work like a horse. When Natalie left him to live in Paris, he worked harder than ever...