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John Doctor, a huffy person when told what to do or not do by anyone outside the medical profession, last week got Congress to lift practically all restrictions on whiskey prescriptions. It was a long struggle of attrition against the Prohibitionists. Dr. William Creighton Woodward, Washington lobbyist for the American Medical Association, eventually won for John Doctor, helped by John Doctor's telegrams, telephone calls and airmailed letters to Senators and Representatives...
Synthetic Stone from compressed and steamed pulverized shale, slate, granite, marble, limestone-reported by Purdue's Randolph Norris Shreve, Harry Creighton Peffer, Richard L. Harrison...
...yard free style--won by Corroon (Y); second, Creighton (Y); third, Fisher Howe '35. Time...
...Have known Dr. Hellwig a long time and he is not parochial, as his hasty missive might imply, but widely traveled and eminent in his specialty. He is just the stripe who would be very unhappy without his weekly installment of TIME. I speak as an old schoolmate' (Creighton University, Omaha) and a struggler on the same old primitive football team with Hellwig. am sure that he will continue to read TIME, the Jocelyn Museum to the contrary notwithstanding...
...better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most remarkable products of the Industrial Revolution...