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That was Harry Truman's request, the end of Henry Wallace's thirteen stormy years in the Government. Wallace penned a short note. "Dear Harry," he wrote. "As you requested, here is my resignation. I shall continue to fight for peace. I am sure that you approve and will join me in this great endeavor...
David Hall, 28, is a chubby, drawling Tarheel who used to play football. Thirteen years ago osteomyelitis (bone infetion) cut his spinal cord and paralyzed him from the waist down. That put him on his back, but not out of circulation. He got through high school and the University of North Carolina in a wheel chair, went on to law school, two years ago married his nurse...
Fifteen major industries in the textile, housewares, clothing and small metalworking fields will not be natinalized unless found inefficient Thirteen-man "working parties" (TIME, June 24) comprising labor, management and public members will survey the industries, report needed improvements to the Board of Trade. So far, the cotton and pottery industries' reports have urged: 1) no nationalization; 2) limited Government intervention to aid modernization; 3) free competititon...
When the voting was over, only thirteen (all Communists or fellow-travelers) out of the bemused 300 were against acceptance. The wilted but grinning Jinnah declared "We have cast...
Like so many research triumphs, this one had been almost an accident. Thirteen years ago a London, Ont. obstetrician named Evan Vere Shute became interested in vitamin E, whose natural sources are in whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels. When a fellow member of his church-his only male patient-complained of tremendous heart pains, Shute put him experimentally on cold, pressed wheat-germ oil. For three months he got relief. When both patient and doctor ran out of funds, the treatment was abandoned...