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...threefold: 1) cancer education has focused too much on the forms that are easiest to detect, 2) people go around for months with severe stomach symptoms before they see a doctor, 3) doctors are so discouraged by the poor outlook for stomach cancer patients that they do not prod them hard enough to accept early surgery...
Isle of Sinners. A stirring French movie (original title: God Needs Men), with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...
Isle of Sinners. A stirring French movie (original title: God Needs Men), with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...
...bureau since 1941. His 14-man bureau puts less stress than the Times on analysis, more faith in legwork. Convivial and popular, Andrews likes to do much of the digging himself, won a 1947 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the star-chamber loyalty proceedings in the State Department, later helped prod the House Un-American Activities Committee into the investigations that trapped Alger Hiss. Andrews turned the whole staff loose to help his able assistant, Jack Steele, track down and expose the five-percenters' scandals...
Isle of Sinners. A stirring French movie (original title: God Needs Men), with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...