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Foreshadowings. The U.N., in its 13th month of existence, was no longer in acute danger of disruption, as it had been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
...Connecticut) and a dozen cities were studying or organizing similar clinics (Connecticut already had one in operation in Hartford). With the aid of Salvation Army workers, ministers, educators, and Alcoholics Anonymous (24,000 members), Yale was campaigning busily for free medical treatment for the nation's 750,000 chronic alcoholics...
Hollywood, living far beyond its cus tomers' means, suffers from a severely bloated pocketbook (TIME, Oct. 21). The complaint is chronic, but a shrewd new diagnosis has been made by the Saturday Review of Literature's roving reviewer, John Mason Brown...
...Yalta," says Mclntire, "it has become the fixed habit of many editors and columnists to state without qualification that Franklin Roosevelt was a sick man, even a dying man." In fact, says Mclntire, he was "tired and worn" and underweight from overwork, but "organically sound" save for a chronic sinus condition. But once the rumors of his decrepitude had been noised around, Mclntire remarks bitterly, supporting evidence was fabricated...
This completely removed the ground from under the Council's recent accusations that "lack of uniformity in regulations from House to House encourages violations in that small, chronic group of offenders," and left the Council with a dead report on its hands...