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...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, still dredging up obscure heroes and scoundrels of history for his Saturday-night radio talks, had taken a moment out before his discussion of "An English Benedict Arnold-George Monk" for a special announcement: "Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within...
Since 1935, the Metropolitan General Hospital in Windsor, Ont. has been keeping careful follow-up records on all patients treated for cancer. Main conclusion, as reported by Dr. Norman A. McCormick in the current Canadian Medical Association Journal: "Ample proof that this disease can be cured." Because five symptom-free years are the medical yardstick for cure, the study stops after 1947. Items...
During the 13 years, said Dr. McCormick, there was no major change in hospital equipment. Improved results, he believes, are "due mainly to an increased familiarity with the disease, influenced to a lesser degree by the use of antibiotic and hormonal therapy...
...Dean Marshal L. Scott of the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations started a ministers-in-industry course in Pittsburgh, and brought it last year to the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Since Dean Scott's course began, similar programs have been organized in Boston, New Haven and San Anselmo, Calif...
...humming din of the plant's control room last week, Premier Duplessis pressed a button to start a 45,000-h.p. generator. Nodding at it and the other big dynamo, he shouted to McCormick: "Do you think they produce more light than the Chicago Tribune?" The colonel chortled appreciatively. Later, at a banquet in the Manoir Comeau the Premier, himself a man who knows his own worth, told 215 guests: "We're somewhat alike, the colonel and I. We're both criticized, but we both do some good work...