Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME has always taken pride in giving its readers valuable information, but we must admit that there are not many cases like that of Clarence S. Jones, 67, a pharmacist in Philadelphia. Reader Jones told us about it in the following letter...
Died. Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, 71 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), rum-swigging onetime U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate, who landed in Haiti in 1927 during the long (1915-34) Marine occupation, stayed on when the troops went home, as director of the country's only insane asylum, took up the study of voodoo, became a houngan (priest) and internationally famed explicator of the jungle rites; of a heart attack; at his wattled hut near Port-au-Prince...
Personal Status. As Premier of the new "government," Ferhat Abbas represents a more moderate choice than might have been expected. A placid ex-pharmacist who speaks much better French than Arabic ("I cannot read Arabic, and I speak it like a country bumpkin"), Abbas was long the recognized leader of the pro-French Moslems, has worked most of his life to bring France and Moslem Algerians into a decent, humane relationship. Though he was twice jailed by the French and called a salaud (dirty bum) by a right-wing Deputy when he was a member of the French Constituent Assembly...
...factories going, Muñoz tapped a young pharmacist (University of Michigan '32) named Teodoro Moscoso Jr., who left a job running his family's wholesale drug business in Ponce to form and boss Fomento. The program's principle, as summed up by Moscoso: "Economic development is not an end but a means of attacking poverty." It avoided political doctrines; Muñoz early ruled that Fomento should "have no fixed taboos, no sacred cows in the choice of instruments to achieve a better standard of living...
Fancy Figures. The story came to light when a newly elected member of the board of school directors. Pharmacist Angelo La-Buono, dropped in at Stengle's office one day last December for a get-acquainted chat. Since Stengle was out, LaBuono began passing the time with three of his clerks. Soon they were blurting out rumors and suspicions-all about a pretty redhead seen on Stengle's arm in Philadelphia, and fancy figures on the school checks that passed through his hands...