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...September 1950 unsure whether they would spend four uninterrupted years in Cambridge. The United States had entered into the second war in these young men's lives. Naturally they were worried; older brothers had died in World War II. The headline in The Crimson's 1950 Registration Issue read "University Plans No Drastic Changes To Meet World Crisis; '54 Should Escape Draft Call." And they did. No one in the Class of '54 died on a Korean battlefield. In fact, George S. Abrams writes in the 25th Anniversary Report of his class, "The worst effect of the Korean...
Elizabeth Rudulph, the reporter-researcher assigned to TIME'S Press section, was not a Baker reader until she began working on this week's cover. "Baker is an acquired taste," says Rudulph, now a convert. "It takes a little more effort to read him, but you get a lot back." She interviewed several of Baker's colleagues at the New York Times, close friends like NBC Anchorman John Chancellor and Author David Halberstam, and a number of other leading humorists, including S.J. Perelman and, in a sense, Benjamin Franklin. (Franklin was the nation's first regularly...
...Stone added that doctors misinterpreted the Saikewicz decision: "The way Saikewicz was read by the medical profession was that they had to go full steam ahead in keeping people alive." He says that it is "inevitable" and "appropriate" that cases will now arise narrowing the applicability of the Saikewicz decision...
...Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, general director of Beth Israel Hospital and associate professor of Medicine, says, unlike most of his colleagues, that "the Saikewicz decision was a wise one." But he, too, feels that doctors read the ruling too strictly--that every time one wants to withhold treatment from incompetents, one must seek the court's approval. Rabkin feels this is not appropriate for a dying patient...
...cataloguing begins, running from Lexington, Kentucky to the New York of Billie Holiday to Boston to postwar Amsterdam, of books read in the nights when sleep would not come. It is a brilliant record; we are fortunate...