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...Political Action Committee. Brown claimed that Reagan had violated a Republican Party platform plank, which declared that only people who believe in "traditional family values and the sanctity of the innocent human life" should be made judges. "We took the G.O.P. platform to be the Bible," he said. Carolyn Gerster, former president of the National Right to Life Committee and a physician from Scottsdale, Ariz., who knows O'Connor well, argued that the judge "is unqualified because she's proabortion. We're going to fight this one on the beaches." Also leading the charge from the right...
...highly readable story on Philanthropist Louis Schweitzer, an intriguing discussion of world mass-transit problems, and a thoughtful piece on the future of education. Selden Rodman, the Haiti buff, contributes an upbeat piece on life in the Caribbean republic. A photo spread of aerial landscapes shot by Dr. George Gerster, a Swiss science editor, is beautifully laid...
...Manhattan, witty Dr. John C. A, Gerster, cancer specialist, advised women leaders of a drive for cancer hospital funds to solicit their bootleggers. Said he: ". . . Since they don't pay much in Government taxes maybe these congenial, piratical individuals can be persuaded to contribute to a public cause in this way." Dr. Gerster revealed that he "knew a man who knew Capone" but could hardly solicit him because his friend was "already tied up with Johns Hopkins...
...educating the public to its medical needs. The American College of Surgeons was a pioneer in opening its meetings to everybody, in translating medical effort into commonplace terms. During last week's sessions a dozen important fellows of the College? Francis Carter Wood, Joseph Colt Bloodgood, John Carl Arpad Gerster, et al.? dined with journalists as guests of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Doctors distrust reporters, fearing inaccuracy and exploitation. Reporters are impatient of doctors, knowing they rarely can get a frank disclosure of news. This is an old impasse which the cancer men are again...
...famed guests, Walter Damrosch. who 50 years ago played accompaniments for Madame Gerster, told anecdotes to recall her invincible personality. Once in St. Louis she announced herself too ill to sing but a certificate was necessary to convince the audience. The physician pronounced just a slight inflammation of the epiglottis and, angry, Madame Gerster sang. His bill of $60 she refused to pay and two years later when she returned to St. Louis the doctor brought suit. But Gerster refused to go to court, said she was too ill. Obligingly then the good-natured judge moved court to her hotel...