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...neither in the Government nor in the nation has automation replaced people. Despite the elaboration of government, business and play in the U.S., the machines still need men and these will probably be marked by two seemingly contrary characteristics, close touch with the people, and uncommon ability to work amid the whirring social machinery of the most complex of nations...
Before he came to TIME in 1951. Harvard-educated ('36) Al Josephy was a New York Herald Tribune correspondent in Mexico. As a combat reporter with the 3rd Marine Division, he wrote two books about the corps, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Uncommon Valor. Out of the service in 1945, he went to Hollywood and wrote movie scripts. Later, he edited three weekly newspapers in California...
...almost 20 years Laurette Taylor had been a desperate alcoholic. When she was suggested to young Playwright Tennessee Williams for The Glass Menagerie, he replied that he thought she was dead. And so in a way she had been. It is to her daughter's uncommon credit that she has not tried to pretty up Laurette's life in a biography that shows the pain of writing on most of its pages...
...years in musty libraries before laymen heard of it. Last week's report on the Salk vaccine was good for banner headlines everywhere, and was covered by the press as massively as the end of a major war-which it was. Ironically, poliomyelitis has always been a relatively uncommon disease with a comparatively low death rate.* Polio is actually less of a public-health problem than rheumatic fever and some forms of cancer which single out the young. But, largely because of its long-term crippling effects, no disease except cancer has been so widely feared in the last...
...Servan-Schreiber, complaining gloomily that "this is all such 19th century stuff," found a pair of seconds, one of them his onetime commanding officer in the Free French Air Force. Actually, duels (with pistols), though often banned in France's gallant and tempestuous history, are by no means uncommon even in present-day France, particularly with newspaper editors, theater critics and existentialist painters. But the Foreign Minister's involvement threatened a government scandal...