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...Public Health Service's unspectacular mass X rays of the population (for early T.B. detection) have done most to take the T.B. death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite...
Americans in Buenos Aires busily pushed cultural schemes, such as a program to send more students northward each year. Others worked to further the unspectacular but steady growth of Argentine exports to the U.S. But as long as the U.S. maintained its foot-&-mouth disease ban on cattle and the Mediterranean fly ban on fruit, and as long as the U.S. kept growing the same farm products as Argentina, there would be a limit to the boom...
...familiar gag that "Only in Philadelphia would nearly everybody read the Bulletin" but there is not much truth to it. The Bulletin may be unspectacular, but it is a good newspaper. Lately, it has strangely refused to act its age. It recently underwent a drastic face-lifting, peeled off the old-fashioned headline types in favor of clean, ultra-modern fonts. Traditionally Republican, it has nevertheless been staunchly pro-Lilienthal, and has given Harry Truman some kindly back-pats. Since it bought the liberal Record, (TIME, Feb. 10), it has had an embarrassing wealth of columns, now prints Tom Stokes...
Governor Warren of California appointed Bill Knowland to the Senate in 1945 to pay off an old political debt to his influential father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland. Young Knowland had had an unspectacular career as state assemblyman and senator, had done better as executive committee chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was an assistant publisher of the Tribune, the father of three, and an indefatigable joiner and organizer of charity drives. Drafted into the Army in 1942, he had risen to the rank of major...
...Queen Elizabeth's crossing time of four days, 16 hours, 18 minutes, was unspectacular, but her champagne luxury was something to cable home about. Her passengers were amazed by what they could eat, drink and buy in the shops. In the mammoth dining saloon amidships or in the tonier Verandah Grill on the afterdeck, first-class passengers ate sirloin steaks, Timbale de Volaille Périgord, pineapple souffle, coupe Jacques...