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...Smash "Em!" Last week the Massachusetts Medical Society asked Dr. Lincoln to resign from its membership. After months of painstaking inquiry, a committee of the society had found him guilty of unethical conduct. It had uncovered no evidence that the bacteriophage treatment caused direct harm to the patients, though committee members worried that it might. But the committee held that it is wrong for Dr. Lincoln to use a single, unproved treatment for all manner of diseases when his patients might be cured or relieved by tried & true methods...
...outcry was loud and prompt. Like many a medical evangelist, Dr. Lincoln has a handful of devoted disciples. Among them: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey.* "Smash 'em right in the eyes!" howled Tobey when he heard what the medical society had done. "Lick 'em like a custard! They're crucifying a wonderful man-a genius." By no coincidence, Tobey is one of Lincoln's patients; he insists on getting the bacteriophage treatment three or four times a week in the office of Capitol Physician George Calver. He says that it has considerably reduced...
Louis Verneuil's Broadway success has finally left the big town and started on the road to oblivion. It is easy to see why it was a long-run success but never a smash...
...favored international cooperation in a "crusade against poverty," and claimed the present arms race will surely end in war. In answer to a question from the floor, he stated that he was not in favor of proposed Atlantic Union plans at the present time, because such a Union would "smash the United Nations...
...Mikado, The Gondoliers and the rest were something new under the limelight: real comedy operas whose music, in its own fribble fashion, was better written than most of the "serious" stuff of its time, and whose plots and lines were among the cleverest on the contemporary stage. These were smash hits, and today, after more than half a century, they are fresh hits every time the curtain rises...