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This week in a startling book, Medicine At the Crossroads,† with a warp of drastic criticism and a moderate woof of diplomacy, Dr. Bernheim ripped into the medical profession. Considering himself a "terrible old reactionary," he offered plans for medicine's modernization. Among his suggestions...
...spectacular Virginia lady who 'has sat in the House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp the lives of Jewish children. Isn't it awful we can't tell what this lunatic is going to do next...
...extended further credit against Chinese gold held in the U. S. (see p. 16). These gestures, called "dangerous, regrettable acts" in Tokyo, made Japanese and U. S. business interests seem more than ever at cross purposes last week. Yet there was one notable spot of conciliation in this warp & woof of imperialism: Wreathed in smiles, Japanese and U. S. cotton textile men renewed their unique, two-year-old private trade pact...
...raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent is his alibi for hanging around his Kansas City landlady's daughter: "When a man denies himself all feminine companionship," reflects Homer, "he is likely to warp his cosmos...
...this reason, such men as Rogosin [TIME, April 11] are becoming desperate. . . . The attacks against the commercial ESP cards, based on the fact that a careless printer used too much ink causing warp, invalidate none of the Duke University experiments where the old hand-stamped cards were used...