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Detroit Edison is now bossed by Ohio-born, Cornell-trained Walker Lee Cisler, 54, who joined the company in 1943 as chief engineer, but was grabbed by the War Department to help restore the war-crippled electric systems in the Mediterranean theater. He did such a good job that General Eisenhower took him along to do the same thing in France and Germany. At war's end Cisler got a chance to show what he could do at Detroit Edison. In three years he moved up to executive vice president, and then into...
...Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court Justice Paul Bonynge charged it solemnly to ponder whether, to a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, injuries and pains could be real (TIME, June 25). This spring a higher court ordered a new trial, holding that Justice Bonynge had erred in letting Christian Science "creep into the trial in a manner inviting, to the plaintiff's prejudice, personal issues between her and the jury." Last week...
...find that she denied the ministrations of a medical practitioner, through a stubborn belief in the efficiency of prayer by a paid healer, and that her recovery was retarded thereby, you would be unfair to your oath if you charged Cisler with these injuries. If she claimed that there is no pain and that the way of relief is through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy you cannot make Cisler...
Pondering all this, the jury decided that Mrs. Kirk's pains were unreal, hence had no place in court. Instead of awarding her $10,000, the twelve good men and true ordered her to pay George Cisler $75 for damages to his automobile...
...land there is a one-man Christian Science Committee on Publication, whose duties as laid down by Mrs. Eddy include correcting unfavorable statements about Christian Science in the Press. Last week all the New York Committee (William Wallace Porter) could think of to write the newspapers about the Kirk-Cisler suit was: "The consideration of this entire case . . . will doubtless bring into view the true definition of the term 'reality.' If this is done something worth while will have been accomplished...