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Early Life. Born May 27, 1911, in an apartment over his family's drugstore in Wallace, S. Dak., the second of four children, he inherited his name and his politics from his pharmacist father, who was persuaded into the Democratic Party after he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. As a prizewinning debater and bright student in high school and college (University of Minnesota '39), he acquired a volubility and an oratorical flourish that have stuck with him through the years. A victim of the Depression (he was forced to quit college for six years when his family...
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...