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...pioneer in antisepsis. As a young doctor in the obstetrics wards of a Viennese hospital, Semmelweiss saw a dismaying number of women die in convulsive agony after giving birth. Because he dared to analyze the cause, Semmelweiss was hounded into madness by disbelieving colleagues and the inflexible Pooh-Bahs of European medicine. Despite a loving wife (Jeanne Koren) and sister (Mary Lou Rosato), he died as a historical martyr of truth...
...editors -agree with Austin American-Statesman (circ. 128,093) Managing Editor Jeff Bruce, whose paper, like many others, carries both columns. Says he: "I suspect most readers cannot tell one from the other." Big Sister Landers, who appears in the Sun-Times while Abby runs in its Chicago rival, pooh-poohs comparisons...
...amateur political analyst, the race of the future will feature two American screen idols: blond, squeaky clean Robert Redford and dark, smoldering Warren Beatty. Just imagine the television campaign commercials with that kind of talent! So far, prospects for the race look good. Like most future contenders, Redford immediately pooh-poohed the idea of running, injecting just the proper note of ambiguity. "I don't like myself in that role," he insisted, though he has already rehearsed it in The Candidate (1972). But he did add, "I have a right to speak out on the issues. Being an actor...
...Great Books," and most people think of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, not Jack and the Beanstalk. But Jack has won a place, along with Winnie-the-Pooh, The Jungle Books and excerpts from James Thurber, in a respected and fast-growing reading program called Junior Great Books. Created for elementary and secondary schoolchildren by the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation, the reading-discussion program does not aim to "teach" the classics. It tries, instead, to teach young people to enjoy good books and to understand better whatever they read. Explains Edwin P. Moldof, the foundation's vice president...
...guests were blue. For the affair marked Bubbles' Beantown finale, the last Boston appearance for Soprano Beverly Sills, who had just sung Rosalinda in the Strauss opera. Sills' white dress balanced Director Sarah Caldwell's black gown, but not Caldwell's mood as she pooh-poohed the notion that Sills would be happy as non-performing director of the New York City Opera. Predicted Caldwell: "Your voice has a voice of its own. You'll be working in the kitchen and suddenly you'll hear singing. You'll try to escape...