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Spring is in the air, but not for the Advocate. The weather seems to have clouded over for the magazine since its splendid December issue. There is one excellent story and the usual competent verse, but the uniformly high standard of the writing is decidedly lacking in the February number, and most of the material leaves the unsatisfactorily impression that one has read it somewhere before. And the appearance of the magazine, heretofore so pleasant, has been largely spoiled by the change to a smaller type size. That may be a minor criticism, but the new look makes the pages...
...smaller print, the rest of the magazine is standard in appearance and content. "The Child Is a Mirror," by Ruth Stone, is a small poem that is nevertheless rich in imagery. John Ashbery has turned up with another delicate poem; perhaps it is a little less comprehensible than usual. The same people are doing the art work again, but the cover in not Corey Weleh's best work. In general, the entire issue is not the Advocate's best, but then Spring does not come officially until March 21st...
...number of football players always seemed to find berths on the spring-time rugby squad. With the single and vital exception of lacking a coach, '48 rugby prospects are bright. Whenever Soldiers Field sod is finally revealed from beneath snow drifts, a rugby team can expect to have the usual H.A.A. facilities at their disposal...
Last week, President Truman fired Dr. Parran from his top job (he remains in the PHS) without even the usual polite little note of farewell. Washington speculated on the reason. Federal Security Boss Oscar R. Ewing, whose agency controls PHS, explained that Dr. Parran's re-appointment for another four-year term (his fourth) would have made his tenure too long.* Politicians suspected that Parran, who had been New York health commissioner under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, was just one more New Dealer dealt out. Medical experts thought that Parran's leaving, among other things, represented a shift...
...moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...