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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishop has lost faith in mankind." Many churchmen agreed. "Singularly futile, stupid and un-Christian," snapped Dr. John S. Thomson, moderator of the United Church of Canada. "There is no justification for anyone, even the Archbishop of Canterbury, to put himself in the place of God," said Canon L. J. Collins of St. Paul's Cathedral, and added that he would cease to be a Christian if he thought "that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is callous to the amount of suffering in the world ... It may be in the providence of God that we should blow ourselves...
...born, he got admitted to Rio's Escola de Bellas Artes, dropped out a couple of times, managed to end up with a degree. Then he went to work for the man who did most to get Brazil's great modern architecture movement into full swing-Lúcio Costa...
...side of the heart in patients with certain kinds of defects. These may be in the heart itself and in the adjacent great vessels, and of a type that defies repair even when the heart is laid open with the aid of a heart-lung machine. Dr. William W. L. Glenn's case is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Nevertheless, the program's staunchest boosters are the companies working under its umbrella. Boston's Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., which bought the first policy in 1948 on its British carbon-black plant, points out that an insured company gets a big boost in its credit rating. General Mills, after insuring a bean-processing setup in Pakistan, was so sold on the insurance that it made plans to insure all new foreign investments, "though we hope never to have to collect...
Died. Martin L. Straus II, 61, adman and business tycoon, chairman (1940-49) of Eversharp, Inc., who started plugging his pens and pencils in 1940 on radio's quiz show Take It or Leave It, began a seemingly unstoppable inflation when he stunned incredulous listeners by presenting a game in which Eversharp contestants could supply progressively difficult answers and work their way toward an extravagant "$64 question"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...