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...death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite of its prewar successes in the Scandinavian countries, are now more enthusiastic; the San Francisco delegates gave the PHS experiment a hopeful endorsement...
West from Georgia. As the first patron of art in super markets, Charlie Crouch had come a long way from his poverty-ridden Augusta (Ga.) boyhood. "We used to work several months to make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch...
Ever since she was "in the primer," honey-blonde Mattie Lou Pollard, 14, has gone to the same one-room schoolhouse near Thomaston, Ga. Her teacher at Sunnyside School had work on her hands, taking care of 34 boys & girls, eight grades and all subjects. But somehow the teacher, Mrs. George Phillips, had time to do right by Mattie Lou. Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, with mother and teacher looking on, Mattie Lou won the Scripps-Howard 20th National Spelling Bee, a $500 prize and a trip to New York. Said pleased-as-punch Schoolmarm Phillips...
...Throw Him Out!" The day before the convention opened, its president, the Rev. Louie D. Newton of Atlanta, Ga., climbed to the rostrum in St. Louis' Second Baptist Church to tell 1,000 of his fellow pastors how nice he had found it in Russia last summer (TIME, Aug. 26). Up popped grey-headed Pastor Norris with a list of 17 embarrassing questions...
Senator George (D-Ga) joined in Vandenberg's proposal to call the Rio conference. He told an interviewer he believes "perhaps the State Department has been putting too much emphasis" on Argentina's obligations first to get rid of pro-Nazi elements...