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...book, written by Clem Wood and Jingo Carroll, while not up to the standards set by the score, is consistently competent as a vehicle and perfectly adapted to the cast. The plot--The New Deal a la Luce in sleepy Anygnay, S.A.--is sufficiently irrational to set off the sharpness of the lines themselves, and needs comparatively little further consideration...
Last week at a meeting in Chicago of 250 of its leaders, the A.M.A. finally swung into action. Hired to run the new education campaign was Clem Whitaker, a stem-winding San Francisco public relations man. An old hand at fighting government-in-medicine (with his pert partner-wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that...
...Clem also knew that an education campaign would not be enough. His experience in California had taught him that voluntary health insurance is the doctors' best weapon against compulsory, Government-regulated plans. Said he: "We want everybody in the health insurance field selling insurance during the next two years as he never sold it before ... If we can get ten million more people insured in the next year and ten million more the next year, the threat of socialized medicine in this country will be over...
...Clem Doerhoff of Kansas City sold her friends 20 of a batch of American Legion raffle tickets. Then she bought one herself, for 39?. Last week, as a result, she won two new Ford automobiles-one for holding the winning ticket and the other for selling...
Meanwhile the Bow Street birdcage was shaken by the sudden illness of perennial hurler Clem Woop, stricken with an acute attack of two-line gagging. "I've got the inside track now," smirked Lionel (The Toy) Train, roundhouse-righthander, who vowed he had never been cornered...