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...health-care dilemmas": The 800-pound gorilla in the room is medical-malpractice lawsuits. If those were brought under control, health-care costs would drop dramatically. Physicians would have no reason to practice "lawsuit prevention." But it won't happen. Most people in our government are lawyers. Robert K. Wismer, MILLERSVILLE...
Died. Harry Wismer, 54, veteran sports announcer; of a skull fracture; in Manhattan. What listener could ever forget when Harry roared into the mike: "He's at the 40, the 45, the 50, the 55 . . ." The bloopers notwithstanding, he was one of the best in the business from 1935 to 1952, when he broadcast for the Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins and New York Giants, and piled up enough of a fortune by 1959 to buy his own team, the A.F.L.'s New York Titans. The team went nowhere and the fans went elsewhere, forcing Wismer to sell...
...Canada, the Supreme Court said not so. In a precedent-making decision the court ruled that when malice is an issue in a libel suit, reporters must name their sources or lose their right to make a defense. The case grew out of a libel suit brought by Gordon Wismer, onetime Attorney General of British Columbia, against Blair Fraser, Ottawa editor of Maclean's magazine, who had written an article on backroom political shenanigans in B.C. Under the cloak of privilege, Editor Fraser had stubbornly refused to name his sources. Now, unless he changes his mind, the court will...
...always had a taste for handsome women, and the year of his divorce he married Helen Wismer, a clergyman's daughter, Mount Holyoke graduate and the former editor of a string of pulp magazines. She expertly manages his business affairs and his home, and has helped him enormously in conquering his blindness. The Thurbers spend part of every winter and spring in Hot Springs, Va. and Bermuda. Summer and fall they live in their beautiful twelve-room, go-year-old house on 65 acres of land in West Cornwall, Conn...
Though eager to sell broadcast time to sponsored commentators with partisan views, most radio stations are timid about taking sides on anything. Last week-owing to circumstances beyond its control-a Los Angeles station found itself speaking right out in a labor dispute. Listeners to a recorded Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special message. I am the recording engineer making this transcription and I am using this means as a last resort to expose a vicious KECA racket...