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Harvard still boasts many a faculty giant like the Law School's Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, but in time they must yield and withdraw as Economist Frank William Taussig and Shakespearean George Lyman Kittredge did this year (TIME, Feb. 17). To replace them. President Conant admits, will be harder now that the growth of State Universities has pushed Harvard from its "natural pre-eminence," made it uncertain that a promising young scholar will heed the once undeniable "call" from Cambridge...
...About 15% of deaths reported as infections are due to abortions. Every day in the U. S. at least three women die from abortion. Dr. [Frederick Joseph] Taussig told me that he guessed there are 700,000 abortions a year in the country [TIME, March 16]. My own hazarded estimation is nearer two million. Abortion, that is, the average criminal abortion, is more dangerous than having the baby. Instead of condoning abortion we should give people better methods of birth control...
...wish to correct a misstatement made in the review of my book on ''Spontaneous and Induced Abortion." You say (TIME, March 16): "Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons." You then cite twelve such reasons. These twelve reasons are correctly quoted from p. 279, but they are preceded by the following sentence: "The minor indications for therapeutic abortion give rise to the greatest differences of opinion, according to Whitehouse, who enumerates a wide range of conditions that have been claimed as justifying interruption...
...FRED J. TAUSSIG...
...Abortions, Spontaneous & Induced-Frederick J. Taussig. M. D.-Mosby...