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...made in 1223 by St. Francis of Assisi. Christmas had always been for him the "Feast of Feasts" when "God condescended to be fed by human love." In the church at the town of Greccio, three years before he died, St. Francis preached before a manger filled with hay, beside which stood an ox and an ass. Wrote an early biographer, Thomas of Celano: "Greccio was transformed almost into a second Bethlehem, and that wonderful night seemed like the fullest day to both man and beast for the joy they felt at the renewing of the mystery...
There was nothing unusual in the fact that John W. Hay, 49, was "a dental coward" and neglected his teeth so long that for two months he had to spend two evenings a week and several hours each Saturday in the chair. What was unusual was that his dentist, knowing that Hay was president of Los Angeles' American Hospital Management Corp., prodded him into doing something about it. Said the dentist: "Why don't you get us a dental hospital in Los Angeles? Then a whole job like this could be done in two hours...
Last week the Southern California Dental Hospital stood as a glittering, $1,750,000 glass-and-marble monument to Hay's initiative. On Sunset Boulevard, hard by Los Angeles' "hospital row," it is the nation's (perhaps the world's) first hospital built exclusively for dentistry. And it was as empty as a freshly prepared dental cavity. Hay's planning had foreseen everything-except how to get patients in. Dental cowardice is a common ailment...
...develop a cure for the rare (800 new cases a year) Addison's disease. In the search it found out, in 1949, how to mass-produce cortisone, today used by millions, and with its derivatives the most broadly prescribed chemical compound for disorders from arthritis to asthma and hay fever. Instead of profiteering, Connor said, Merck cut the price from $200 to $20 a gram before it had a competitor, then licensed so many other manufacturers that last year it had but 17% of the cortisone group market. Not for seven years did Merck recover its $21.8 million investment...
...paradox, Indian civil airline pilots fly more than 25 million domestic miles a year and jet fighters are being built in Indian factories by Indian workmen. Yet not long ago, when a plane landed for the first time in a district of northern India, peasants tried to feed it hay. The old ways die hard: recently a Westernized and highly educated dean of an Indian law school kept postponing his flight to the U.S. until an auspicious date was selected for him by his astrologer...