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...idea for Rex Morgan's current sequence came from a Roman Catholic priest. He suggested to Presbyterian Curtis a few months ago that people do not know enough about euthanasia or what the real issues are. Curtis decided to enlighten his readers as he has before on cancer quacks, police and psychology. All have brought a flood of mail from medical men. The letter that Curtis prizes most came from Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society Inc. Wrote Dr. Cameron: "May I compliment you on the splendid service you are rendering...
...thank God.") There was a deeper reason for his satisfaction: he was set to face U.S. audiences with an orchestra of his own-an enterprise "I have undertaken in a becoming spirit of modesty and humility." In fact, beamed Sir Thomas, he had come "neither to educate nor to enlighten, but only to please...
...whose executives have a passion for anonymity, needed only a three-sentence press release last week to say that Ralph W. Burger had been named to succeed David T. Bofinger, who died last December. To businessmen, 61-year-old Burger was almost completely unknown, and A. & P. did not enlighten them. He had never been listed in Who's Who in America nor in any of the other directories with which U.S. industry keeps track...
...Greenough Smith wanted an article on orchids and the writer protested that he "hardly knew an orchid from a geranium," the editor replied: "Just the thing. I will give you an introduction to the greatest of orchid growers, and if you will write an article on what interests and enlightens you, then [it] will interest and enlighten the public in general." The Strand became a part of British life, from drawing room to below stairs, and colonials fondly regarded it as "a bit of London" in their far-off homes...
Commented the New York Times: ". . . A familiar brand of double talk . . . Mao and his comrades have not bothered to enlighten the Chinese, or us, on what is democratic about a dictatorship or how those two antithetical words happened to get into one propaganda phrase...