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...could get little information from Durovic about the "secret" of Krebiozen; the little that Ivy got, he passed on promptly to the medical society. It was enough, he argued, to take Krebiozen out of the "secret remedy" class; the society's committeemen disagreed. Meanwhile, the A.M.A. reported on its own investigation of 100 patients treated with the drug: only two benefited even for a short time, and 44 died (TIME, Nov. 5). The A.M.A. rejected it as a treatment...
Only a polite ripple of applause greeted Frank E. McKinney of Indianapolis when he strode down the aisle in Washington's Mayflower Hotel to accept Bill Boyle's old job of chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As far as the national committeemen could tell last week, big Frank McKinney looked like Boyle and walked like Boyle. Like Boyle, he was a Midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, a machine Democrat, and Harry Truman's hand-picked choice for the job. But the Democrats soon discovered that Frank McKinney didn't talk like Boyle...
Today, Cambridge voters will elect nine city councillors and five school committeemen. Although polling places close at 8 p.m. today, election results will not be tabulated for four or five days due to the proportional representation system of voting...
Tomorrow, nine City Councillors and five School Committeemen will be elected. There will be two groups of candidates: "CCA-endorsed" and "independents." Some of the independents are well-qualified and some of the CCA-endorsed candidates have similar qualifications. But the issue in the election is not one of personalities, rather whether or not Cambridge voters believe that the Cambridge Civic Association has done good for Cambridge...
...Committee to Curb Communism went about its job with an equally avid sense of the urgent. The committeemen burrowed into old FBI files, heard testimony, drew up organizational charts, and delved into the history of the Communist Party. Their 84-page report submitted March 29, 1951 pointed out that Boston was the Headquarters of all subversive activities in "District 1"--Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island...