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...autonomy between the medical profession and a government bureau, the bill embraces the better portions of two extremes into a new and distinctly stronger plan. It should come near accomplishing the age-old goal of medical insurance programs--to keep medicine from being neither a luxury nor a political spoil...
Yale has a chance to spoil the varsity squash team's chances for a Big Three squash title this afternoon, when it entertains the Crimson on the New Haven courts. Should Harvard win, it will have its first title since...
...Spoil the Broth. On one point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...
...Toronto, Bridge Expert Oswald Jacoby stuck his neck out: "Canasta is the only game that my wife and I could play . . . with some of our half-witted friends. [It] can be enjoyed by everyone, unlike bridge, where a poor player can spoil the game for others...
...Next week Pettit will report to the Pirates' rookie training camp at San Bernardino, Calif. He will be seasoned this year with the New Orleans Pelicans, a Pirate farm team, and make his big-league debut in 1951. The big question is whether money in the bank will spoil his appetite for baseball, as it did with some other bonus babies, notably Outfielder Dick Wakefield (TIME, Jan. 2). Pettit already has $10,000 on account, and will draw down the rest of his bonus in yearly installments...