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...particular. Wrote De Kruif: "[I was] sold a bill of goods, that the ancient, close, personal relation between doctors and their patients-that's the pride and the unique distinction of family physicians-was no longer necessary . . . The good old family doctor? He'd soon be a relic, replaced by integrated groups of specialists, all streamlined under an ultramodern hospital roof . . . It dazzled me to watch the plan's huge profits build and actually pay off beautiful hospitals. I fell for the plan's economics offering what seemed complete surgical and medical care...
...think?", and one catty nun will say about another: "And you should see her genuflections." The abbot on the phone burbles to his opposite number: "Well, Abbess, and how's the old blood pressure?", while a fierce little monk clutching a horsewhip snarls: "Who's pinched my relic of The Little Flower?" Most of Brother Choleric's cartoons are taken from real life. Says he: "One doesn't have to think up jokes in a monastery...
Abie's Irish Rose (by Anne Nichols) is much more, of course, than a bit of debris out of Broadway's past. It might even be considered Broadway's most sacred relic: at any rate its five-year run remains the greatest of Broadway miracles. How great a miracle only those who see it today can be quite sure. It has been brought up to date in various little ways, but with the utmost tact, and in all essentials is every bit as stupefying...
...known glory as General John J. Pershing's personal staff car when he shuttled between French battlefields in World War I, wound up in the hands of a French junkman named Eugene Chaveneau. With a clear eye on turning a modest profit, Junkie Chaveneau coolly announced that the relic will be scrapped unless, for historical or sentimental reasons, it attracts a buyer by month...
These are very lively relics of a U.S. past that has died in most other parts of the West. But the Inland Empire is no relic; harder perhaps than any other region, it is riding toward the future. In the Columbia Basin, settlers are filling up newly irrigated farm lands. Power from McNary, Hungry Horse and other dams is attracting new industry and population to the cities. Long an inland colony, the Inland Empire is getting ready to live up to its proud name...