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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Extrovert Eleanor Roosevelt replied: "The greatest dangers to democracy seem to me to be apathy, a lack of personal responsibility and ability to look courageously at the world...
...associates formed the Harvey Cushing Society, for the exchange of information on neurology.* Last week, at Yale University, most of the 46 members of the Society, together with a large group of physicians from Vancouver to Boston, met to celebrate the 70th birthday of the world's greatest neurologist. For two and a half days the scientists presented brief reports on their latest accomplishments. On April 8, they capped the celebration by surprising Dr. Cushing with a birthday bibliography of all his writings. Said Dr. Cushing, overwhelmed: "I am deeply gratified and touched...
Active Retirement: In 1933 Dr. Cushing returned to Yale, and in 1937 he retired. But retirement, to Harvey Cushing, did not mean rest. He hates vacations, spends his day at the New Haven Hospital. In the evenings he plays backgammon with kindly, sociable Mrs. Cushing. His greatest relaxation is playing with his two little granddaughters, Sarah Delano (age seven) and Kate (age three), the children of his charming, blue-eyed daughter Betsey (Mrs. James Roosevelt). Social affairs he has always detested. Mrs. Cushing tells a story of how she once tricked him into going to a coming-out party...
...contributed more than $2,000,000 to Spain during its late war, but they have given much less to China; to the Church Committee for China Relief, only $268,709 since its founding last summer. John R. Mott, vice chairman of the Committee, declares that in China is "the greatest area and volume of relatively unrelieved human suffering of modern times"-30,000,000 people in need of the barest sustenance...
...spectators, as spellbound as a gallery at Lord's, greatest disappointment were the Crawley Busmen from the nearby London Transport Garage, pretournament favorites because of their strong fingers (from punching tickets, they say). Overcome by nervousness, they were finally nosed out by the Old Comrades, another Sussex six, 26-to-23. To the Old Comrades went a suckling pig, to the strong-fingered Crawley Busmen a barrel of beer...