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...meanest man in the medical profession?" Last week the New York State Journal of Medicine thought it had found the man, even if it was too polite to mention his name. "Nothing but the sternest sort of conscience would persuade us to publish such a comment ... on a colleague," said the editors...
...command would be bigger and bleaker than it had been in the northwest. Even Fu's military and political sense could not entirely offset the lack of prompt U.S. help. But Fu's appointment would be well regarded even by one of China's sternest critics. U.S. Secretary of State Marshall had said: "Fu is a real soldier . . . when he says he can do something, I believe him." Last week Fu said: "We will move quickly, keep active on all fronts...
...during his 23-year career as head of the industrial diocese of Birmingham, he has scandalized his brethren by espousing euthanasia, sterilization, easy divorce. Many of his colleagues have undertaken to tell him off. But last week's public rebuke by the Primate of All England was the sternest he has yet received. This time, it was not a question of mere difference of opinion, but of his Church's faith. Last March, Barnes had published a new book, The Rise of Christianity. In it he wrote...
Staring across Zaslavsky's desk is a plaster bust of Lenin, molded in sternest mien. Zaslavsky remembers - and well -that even before Lenin had a political party he founded a newspaper to promote revolution, assigned its correspondents...
...last week the U.S. took the sternest measures yet against the German "cigaret economy." Washington banned private shipments of American cigarets, indicated that U.S. personnel in Germany would get only enough for themselves. Black marketeers moaned. Said one, hopefully: "Clever American people will find a way to beat the law." But by week's end it was the clever Russians who were showing most of the enterprise. Four days after Washington's dictum, millions of American-looking Russian cigarets were flooding Berlin at 2½ marks apiece-half the price of U.S. cigarets...