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Current public interest in medicine, its techniques and advances, has trickled down even unto youngsters in the third and fourth grades, and I can daily produce a fistful of (usually frantic) letters requesting "all you known (sic) about Rh, blood plasma, hypothermia and 'that blue-baby' operation."
Bad luck has dogged the sports career of U.S. Army Private Willie J. Williams, 24, a powerful Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg...
As the biggest peacetime exodus from the U.S. to Europe was reaching its peak last week, there came some dollar-saving advice for the 1,250,000 tourists who will spend $2 billion abroad this year. Nicholas Deak, who heads Manhattan's Deak & Co. and Perera Co. foreign-exchange...
Since last winter, Estes has put his well-manicured Tennessee hand into a whole fistful of investigations. As the head of a subcommittee charged with investigating juvenile delinquency, he has traveled to New York to study the injurious effect of pornographic literature upon teenagers, and to Los Angeles to criticize...
In three evenings a group of American ambassadors scored a triumph for the U.S. that diplomats or dollars have rarely matched. The language was international, and the Americans spoke it eloquently. The successful envoys: the 102 members of the touring Philadelphia Orchestra and Conductor Eugene Ormandy. When Budapest-born, U.S...