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...change." He made another important piece of change in Western Air Express, which he helped to organize a few years later. Nowadays Bill Henry lives in a big, nondescript house in downtown Los Angeles, enjoys winning the family tennis championship at the country club with his wife, the former top-flight tennist, Corinne Stanton, and daughter Patsy (one of three), 1935 National Girls' Tennis Champion...
...York. Twice the Board of Regents refused him a license, insisted that he take an examination in the whole field of medicine, like any young medical student (an impossibly tough obstacle for a specialist who left medical school 42 years ago). Last spring, moved by the pleas of top-flight neurologists, the Appellate Division called the Regents unreasonable, ordered them to give Dr. Marburg a license, under a statute which waives an examination for eminent doctors...
Sulfadiazine seems to be "rather non-toxic." It is "very promising at the moment and may prove to be the next step in the sulfonamide ladder." (Last week Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins, top-flight sulfa specialist, announced that this drug will be on the market by early fall. Said he: "I have good reason to believe it will supplant all sulfa drugs now being used...
...hand at snaring such top-flight cinema talent for noncommercial rates is sharp-tongued, tapir-nosed Charles Vanda, 38, producer of Forecast. He also produces Lolly Parsons' Hollywood Premières and the Hollywood end of the U.S. Treasury's Millions for Defense. Acidulous on all matters, particularly Hollywood, Vanda is enormously popular with reporters, is privily referred to by actors as "The Toad." Mordantly witty, as typical of Manhattan as a knish, Vanda has a ready excuse for his devastating blintzkriegs. "It's all an act," he says. "Inside I'm just a sissy...
...Chicago street an elderly man upped to a perfect stranger and said: "Pardon me, may I test your blood?" The indignant citizen calmed down when he discovered who his questioner was: Dr. Oliver Clarence Wenger, top-flight syphilologist in the U.S. Public Health Service. This was the latest wrinkle in a much-wrinkled campaign against venereal disease which City and State health departments have been waging for four years...