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...race discrimination will really keep him sitting on the edge of his chair when talking to a boy who has been trying to find a job in a Cambridge defense industry, and whose ability he has learned to respect after a day of hard work together. And our skeptic might change his mind about weekends...
...Over the past decades the pressure for payments of soldiers' bonuses has been on of the most unwholesome aspects of our political scene. There is little reason for reintroducing the issue prematurely and with government support. Even a skeptic will admit that the morale of an army is not made or unmade by bonus payments...
...Ehrlich's colleague, Dr. Robert Koch, the discoverer of the anthrax bacillus, 70-year old German Refugee Albert Basserman gives the picture's outstanding performance. The alert tilt of his head, his probing eyes, even his wary stance are an embodiment of the professional scientific skeptic, who is not unwilling to believe, but has to be shown. Once Ehrlich has shown him, he becomes a gracious, humane old man, remains professionally a skeptic...
...Donald won the first major-league game he pitched. Then he won another and another and another. Baseball fans began to notice the Yanks' rookie. Skeptics said he was just lucky: he was aided by the heavy hitting and smart fielding of his mighty teammates. But after he had won nine games in a row, even the toughest skeptic had to admit that the Yankees were not making Donald but that Donald was helping make the Yankees. Last week, trying for his 13th consecutive victory, Rookie Donald, whose outstanding assets are a sneaky fast ball, a gimlet...
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