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Rumor: three well-to-do Denver citizens have recently died for lack of hospital care. Fact: most Denver hospitals are so crowded that they have waiting lists of surgical patients. Yet the 700-bed municipal Denver General Hospital has 250 empty beds. To City Councilman Edward J. Mapel, the solution to this problem looked simple: open the city hospital to any paying patient...
...Councilman Mapel soon discovered that he had a lot to learn about hospitals. To be acceptable to the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons, a hospital must have a staff of doctors from accredited medical schools. This staff is carefully selected by the hospital's governing board, and no nonstaff doctor may practice at the hospital...
...collect each day's most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). He was also ranked with Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn, an executive whose high-salaried writers are often suspected of improving...
Strange Dean. Town & gown bitterness in Cambridge is an old story; Cambridge's famed Councilman Michael...
...Abyssinian Baptist Church. Its 10,173 members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes a hell-raising speech, likes to kiss the womenfolk in the congregation afterward. His secretary says proudly: "All the women love...