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...further complicated when, weeks ago, "detail men" for the drug companies called on doctors and asked how much vaccine they wanted. How much they actually got depended less on how far ahead the company was with its production program than on how the salesmen liked individual doctors. Now the unhappiest doctors are those few with a little vaccine. Pressure from parents on these doctors is heavy...
Aside from the scientific nature of these stories--which incidentally contain little pseudo-scientific jargon--there is another ingredient which seems to be exclusive to ASF. The scientists who write for it must be a very gloomy lot, for they groan continually about current life, and predict the unhappiest of futures. In Blood's A Rover (the May issue's lead yarn), for instance, the captain of a Process Corps takes us by the hand and shows how awful the Earth's historical development has been, how ridiculously evangelistic we Earthlings really are, and what is in store...
...letter to his Little Apostles: "The church sent me to you, I came. I loved you as my children. Now the church takes me away from you. I am no longer father to you. I am a priest in search of a diocese, and I am one of the unhappiest men on the face of the earth." Last week the first of the Salesian fathers arrived in Nomadelphia. Don Zeno packed his accordion and went off to rest and wait for a new assignment...
...present century, U.S. Protestants have been increasingly unhappy about themselves. Unhappiest of all were the missionaries, whose work spotlighted the absurdity of the Christian schism ("How can you ask a Chinese in North China to become a Southern Baptist?"). One of the greatest of those missionaries was Episcopal Bishop Charles Brent. At a worldwide missionary conference in Edinburgh in 1910, Bishop Brent conceived the idea that, just as division thrives on ignorance, unity might burgeon with more inter-church understanding...
...that they were unable to compete with the Government's purchases and get the seed they needed. Result: there was a shortage, though possibly temporary, of cottonseed cake and the price jumped from $60 to $68 a ton in six weeks.* This naturally made beef cattle feeders the unhappiest...