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...anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed him from town to town. Once he even got away with a public burning of orthodox medical texts. Today Paracelsus is famed as the great-grandfather of chemotherapy, for he was the first to use chemicals in combating...
...Government hopes that unemployment will slide down to about 4,000,000 men by the end of 1941, that WPA's 1,600,000 may be nearly all absorbed in industry by mid-1942. But Mr. Roosevelt said flatly that "even with what we call 'full employment,' there will remain a large number of persons who cannot be adjusted to our industrial life. For this group the Government must provide work opportunities." Thus the President confessed his belief that WPA is incurably permanent, a fixed part of U. S. life; that there will always be obsolete, unemployable...
...since 1913 he has played for socialites what jazzmen call "long-underwear" music, sweet and tuneful. At 18 he muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party in the U. S.-had come...
...France," said its leader, "now has 35,000 trained troops under arms, 20 warships in service, 1,000 aviators and 60 merchant ships at sea." In a phrase reminiscent of Dakar (where De Gaulle forces withdrew rather than fight other Frenchmen) General de Gaulle declared: "If necessary we will employ force to free French people who are prevented from doing their duty by the ghastly ambiguity of subservience to the rulers of betrayal...
...mission board or society which supports him now shares that responsibility. It must sign a declaration "recognizing that all due obedience and respect should be given by its members to the lawfully constituted government in whatever part of India or Burma they may be . . . and that it will employ only agents who will work in this spirit...