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Family doctors do not enjoy as much prestige (or get such high fees) as surgeons or other specialists. Thinking that an organization of their own might add to the professional luster of family doctors, the American Medical Association last year voted to organize the American Academy of General Practice...
...great peacetime battle of production, Henry Kaiser got back some of the luster of his wartime fame. His Willow Run plant turned out 145,000 cars and he was able to brag in full-page ads that he was now "the world's fourth largest producer of automobiles." It was true in the sense that only General Motors, Ford and Chrysler topped Kaiser-Frazer. Actually, production of seven of the Big Three's individual divisions topped K-F's figure...
Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater. . . ." The Daily Telegraph: ". . . Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...
What heroic luster this story had was tarnished by the party's attempts to peddle it to the newspapers. The Communists first charged $100 for one of Audisio's photographs, then went down to $35, still found no takers. Both A.P. and U.P. refused to bid for "exclusives," but Overseas News Agency came through with 50,000 lire ($133) for a special bylined article-which did not turn out to be very special. When an Overseas man asked Audisio for more information, the bookkeeper answered: "I can't sell all my secrets at once...
Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...