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...atmosphere of tension and hysteria Reuther at last went to Convention Hall to hear the decision. With sideline fist fights, near-riots, shouts of "quack, quack" (the auto workers' way of saluting Communist colleagues), with threats and pleas for order from the chair-and with most of the 60 lady delegates voting for Reuther-labor's most democratic union elected its leader. Reuther squeaked in by a hair (4,444 to 4,320). R. J. Thomas wept and stumbled off the stage...
Most startling fact: Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, had been a mere quack. He made a large fortune out of his job, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs or just plain colored water into Hitler, slowly undermining his bourgeois good health...
...Chicago last week, the American Association of Junior Colleges heard warnings that quack, fly-by-night schools and colleges are springing up all over the U.S.-most of them hoping to grab veterans, who are each allowed $500 tuition under the G.I. Bill of Rights...
...weary Britons last fortnight read these piquant queries in their favorite column-Nat Gubbins' "Sitting on the Fence" (TIME, Dec. 18)-and settled down to learn what "Dr. N. Gubbins, the notorious Fleet Street quack," had to say on the subject of psychoneurosis...
Stomach Abracadabra. The doctor who hung his shingle in the village or rode circuit through the forest was, often as not, a quack. Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...