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Wisdom & Poison. Nudging these working newsmen for space were big-name specialists, with varying claims to international wisdom: Westbrook Pegler, George Fielding Eliot, Ludwig Bemelmans, Drew Pearson, Ely Culbertson, Orson Welles. Mixed in were avowed propagandists, ranging from Edgar Ansel Mowrer (who was pleased to call the conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross...
...Neostibosan, an antimony compound, seems to have cured eleven out of 33 Puerto Rican filariasis patients. Drs. Harry Rose and James T. Culbertson of Columbia University, who have given the treatments since last April, believe that the drug may eventually cure some of their other patients. (The disease sometimes results in the monstrous swellings of elephantiasis.) This is good news for U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific area...
When the news came, Mrs. Ralph Hubbard was at Oklahoma City's Crippled Children's Hospital reading to polio victims. Nurse's Aide Hubbard dashed out, ran all the way to the Culbertson School and right into the First Grade. There she gave her son Joe the news: his father was safe...
...anything to do with the supremacy of Helen Sobel. Eleven Life Masters are now in uniform, but the championship sessions at Manhattan's Hotel Astor showed a better quality of play than in prewar years. (It also set four new attendance records-daily average, 100 tables.) The Culbertson system, basis of all contract bidding, has been modified, streamlined and so vastly improved that oldtime experts are hard put to keep up with the latest bidding methods (the opening two-bid, once the strongest forcing call, is now used as a weak bid by most of the experts, because...
...TIME will continue to give Bridge Expert Culbertson's avocation serious attention...