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Twenty-seven years ago dusty, somnolent little Whitney, Tex. (pop. 2,000) became the recipient of a homely but extremely functional civic improvement: Druggist D. ("Doctor Dee") Scarborough installed a pine bench in the shade outside his store. The bench soon became as integral a part of Whitney's life as the Plaza in Santa Fe or Fountain Square in Cincinnati...
...British National Health Service Act working out? Editor John W. McPherrin of the American Druggist (circ. 57,000) decided to see for himself...
Retailer Levine went to court. Like Florida's Druggist James ("Doc") Webb before him (TIME, April 18), Levine challenged the constitutionality of such price-fixing. Like Doc Webb, he won. Last week, in a unanimous decision, a five-judge appellate court threw the state board's price-fixing powers down the hatch. Unless the decision was reversed, there would soon be a wave of price-cutting all over the state. In July, 29 million gallons of aged whisky laid down right after VE-day would roll on to the market, ready to help the downward push...
Porter was born in Peru, Ind. (pop. 15,000), in the corn country 75 miles north of Indianapolis, but his beginnings were hardly simple. He was the only child of a prosperous druggist, and the grandson and heir of coal and lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester...
...Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...