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...Vachel Lindsay. "The only governor of Illinois sure to be named by remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...
These facts, set down in official memoranda by former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (who was at the Atlantic Charter meeting), were introduced last week into the records of the Pearl Harbor investigation. They were of little value to Republicans, who had hoped to unearth some evidence that the late President had sought a way to wangle the U.S. into war. Cracked one Senator: "About the only thing this investigation has shown is how isolationist Franklin Roosevelt really...
Whether or not the investigation will unearth many new facts about the U.S.'s greatest military debacle was open to question. But one thing was sure: it will be shot through with politics-on both sides...
With cash prizes and possible publication in "Wake" or "Pro Tem" offered as inducement, the international Club of Harvard and Radcliffe is at present conducting a contest to unearth latent talent for poetry in the University...
Advice to Doctors. The book's advice to young doctors makes good sense: 1) take the time to get a good, complete history of the patient's illnesses; 2) do not write down anything likely to embarrass the patient; 3) unearth, if possible, the patient's real reason for seeing a doctor; 4) take a good look at each patient; size him up; 5) never get angry with a patient and never give him the lie direct-"the patient is always right"; 6) do not put too much faith in laboratory tests nor order unnecessary ones...