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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing dropped a bombshell: a program of compulsory health insurance which he recommended to President Truman. Ever since, the big brass of the American Medical Association have been spluttering with indignation. Determined to fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail, the A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members...
...Gras kings who were porters, shopkeepers and undertakers, but Trumpeter Armstrong was big-time royalty, even a world figure. Many jazz experts, who can be as snooty and esoteric as existentialists or the followers of a Bach cult, solemnly hail him as the greatest musical genius the U.S. has ever produced...
...Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin' Chair, it was hard for oldtimers to believe that Louis or jazz were ever better...
...meticulously neat, and says, "Ever since I was a kid, I've spent my last nickels to keep my shirts clean. Musicians are lazy, don't seem to care how they look. Some of them are dirty. I don't hold with that." Last week in Vancouver, he had 16 $150 suits hanging in his hotel-room closet...
Success had had its bitter side for little Willie Pep. As fancy a featherweight as ever tied on gloves, he won so many fights (134 against one defeat) that home-town Hartford, Conn, took him for granted. Willie grew cocky and careless. Result: last October he was knocked out cold by Challenger Sandy Saddler. Willie lost his featherweight crown, but in defeat Hartford began to rally round him and he became a town hero on a comeback trail. The home folks bellowed for a return engagement...