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...Call. When General Omar Bradley took over V.A. in 1945, he offered Dr. Hawley an unattractive job. Veterans' medicine, under fire from Congress and the press, was a mess of red tape, indifference, discouraged patients, scarce equipment, underpaid doctors. Major General Hawley, third in a line of Indiana family doctors, had been chief surgeon of the ETO, and he felt "called." He wanted not only to clean up V.A., but to give veterans the best medicine the U.S. could offer...
...this ancient hypochondriac is almost worth the price of orchestra seats. The other actors fill in smoothly, except perhaps for the one playing the young girl in love, whose stylized cuteness is like nothing seen off the stage. The sets are a little too elegant for the homes of underpaid English schoolmasters, but they do look good...
There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...
American mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public, which has proved to the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph platitudes has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous...
Town & Country made money at it: frozen at 25,000 during the war, it doubled its circulation last year, cleared almost $500,000. Editor Bull wanted to plow the money back, give raises to some underpaid staffers and boost his authors' payments. He also asked an end to the stepchild treatment that withheld paper and press time from Town & Country in favor of other Hearst magazines. Instead, his bosses threatened to give Town & Country a mixed-salad section of architecture, interior and exterior (cosmetics) decorating. Now they are free to do it, and Harry Bull is free to write...