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Flipper-Flapping. Harry Truman spoke more soberly. He asked the assembled Democrats to remember the party platform and to help him carry it through. Then he recalled that Princeton University was engaged in publishing the complete works of Thomas Jefferson; he hoped that someone would also publish all the writings of Jackson, Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt...
...lives in Manhattan, paints mostly from memory. "When I was young," he says, "I painted outdoors and after three or four hours I was lost. But the more I am getting older the more I can paint without a subject. I made a drawing from nature for Port Jefferson (see cut), but in the painting itself the details are different. The spirit, though, is the same...
...first half of the 20th Century, both the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal found reasons for cheering. But on one point they differed sharply. Said the A.M.A. Journal: "Operations formerly undreamed of are now everyday occurrences." On the contrary, said British Surgeon Geoffrey Jefferson: "There is not much that we do today that surgeons were not doing [in 1900]; we do things better and more often . . . We have new aids that they were denied"-such as wound-healing drugs and better anesthetics...
...Department's first venture into the cartoon field is a simply written, effectively illustrated biography of eight Americans: Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, Poet Walt Whitman, Social Worker Jane Addams, Scientist George Washington Carver, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The first shipment (65,000 copies), on the presses this week in Manhattan, will go to Viet-Nam. Later, 65,000 apiece will be sent to Indonesia, Korea and Thailand...
...Sherwood (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Roosevelt and Hopkins') was the only new member elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose membership is limited to 50. He filled the spot vacated by the death of Historian James Truslow Adams (Founding of New England, The Living Jefferson...