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...would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...
Norman John Oswald Makin had come a long way. Last week the errand boy from Broken Hill, who entered Australian politics at 19, was host at a dinner for his fellow UNO leaders at the swank Savoy in London. Russia's terrifying Vishinsky was gaily talkative on his right, and China's Wellington Koo suavely quiet on his left...
Mission to Tokyo. Recently Hearst Sr. intrusted Hearst Jr. with a long-distance errand. Flying to Tokyo, the filial emissary had discussions (purely preliminary) with General Douglas MacArthur...
While Folke Bernadotte scurried back & forth on his enormous errand, the Hamburg radio said this week that Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, as Hitler's appointed heir, proposed to fight the Russians to the last, the U.S. and British armies so long as they refused to accept a separate surrender. Perhaps significantly, the voice on the Hamburg radio did not mention Gestapoman Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi whom all had supposed to be Adolf Hitler's deputy ruler of the Reich...