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...during the second week of March. Almost one-third of the delegates at the nominating conventions will be on the line. Duke University Political Scientist Joel Fleishman calls the regional primary "a logical extension of the South trying to find its place in the sun." Texas State Senator John Traeger, chairman of the Southern Legislative Conference and a leading proponent of the Mega Tuesday idea, puts it even more emphatically: "The South has risen again...
...Leitz, Inc., the U.S. distributors of Leica cameras, it took pains to see that E. Leitz did not fall back into the hands of its German parent, Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar (TIME, June 16). The Justice Department remembered what had happened after World War I. Then Alfred Traeger, the former manager of the U.S. branch of Leitz (also seized by the Government in World War I), bought the company from the Government's alien property division. By the mid-1930s, Germany's Leitz again owned the U.S. company. This time, the Government barred any but U.S. citizens from...
...Mann's first acts was to make a change in Leitz's New York operation. Into the top management slot he again put Alfred Boch, the same man who had been brought to the New York branch in 1935 when Leitz of Germany took over from Traeger...
...gouty arthritis, said Manhattan's Dr. Estes C. Kidd,. phenylbutazone has shown "remarkable effects," and appears to combine the virtues of colchicine and Benemid, the two best drugs up to now. For the whole range of joint disorders, said Dr. Cornelius Traeger, it is "the most potent non-narcotic analgesic we have...
...June day in 1947, Manhattan Physician Cornelius Traeger suddenly took leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to visit a patient: "I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...