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Intellectual Integrity. Grave, intelligent, industrious Editor Dabney is well liked, personally, among Richmond's banker-lawyer-merchant aristocracy. But as an editor they call him everything from a "starry-eyed idealist" to a "nigger lover." Dabney himself says: "I'd like to think that I get by with my views in circles which don't agree with me because I am credited with intellectual integrity, but that might be stretching a point...
...Merchant Marine Casualties...
...Casualties" (TIME, Oct. 2). TIME, obviously, does not see fit to regard Merchant Marine losses as part of U.S. war casualties...
...security reasons, Merchant Marine casualty figures have not been released as regularly as the armed forces'. Up to Oct. 1, total Merchant Marine losses since the beginning of the war were 5,855, of which 560 were prisoners...
Died. Dr. Alexis Carrel, 71, French master surgeon and scientific philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious...