Word: prophetizer
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...years ago, Sammy was just a columnist for wealthy Press Lord Assis ("Chato") Chateaubriand (TIME, June 8). But when Sammy came out for ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas in the last presidential election, Chato wired him: "I am buying ice for your hot head." Vargas won, and nicknamed Wainer "The Prophet." Money poured in from pro-Vargas industrialists and from the Vargas-controlled Bank of Brazil (a reputed $18 million) to buy Wainer a plant and start a new, pro-Vargas paper, Ultima Hora...
...Prophet from Yoknapatawpha...
...grocery-store operator from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, led delegates through a simple agenda. One executive board decision: to pay the cost of special identification tags for American Moslems in military service which will read, "I am a Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform them...
Practical Surgery. Paradoxically, although to most U.S. laymen medicine in Vienna means Freud and psychoanalysis, few foreign psychiatrists go there. For one thing, Prophet Freud is less honored at home than abroad. Also, Viennese psychiatrists admit that their U.S. colleagues have outfreuded them. Vienna's attraction to U.S. doctors is in its readily available facilities for studying the practical side of surgery and pathology...
Mahatma Gandhi-Twentieth Century Prophet. An eloquent, full-length documentary about India's late great leader, narrated by Quentin Reynolds (TIME...