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Physicians are disappearing from depressed areas such as Mattapan and South Boston, and community health centers are folding--including one in Roxbury this year, SPH Dean of Students Helen Pommer says. "General Practitioners are a dying breed...
...grades, contends: "There are enough students of little competence-why encourage them?" A faculty adviser at Lake Forest, Chemist William B. Martin, worries about "superficial" study by unguided students, who might read The Canterbury Tales but not really understand it. There is no doubt, says Allegheny English Professor Henry Pommer, that a few students "goof off" when on their...
...most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). He was also ranked with Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn, an executive whose high-salaried writers are often suspected of improving on the Goldwyn quotations ("They are always...
...reporters who cover San Francisco's City Hall consider Philadelphia's Councilman Charles Pommer a piker [TIME...
When the returns were in last week, Mr. Pommer was back for his 42nd year, now as senior councilman. Keystone of his winning campaign was his philosophy: "I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders...