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...years Dr. Harry Heiman has practiced medicine in his native city of New Orleans. A wisp of a man, little more than five feet tall, he has delivered more than 2,000 babies. Last week Dr. Heiman was charged by the district attorney with "negligent homicide" as the result of the death of one of his patients from the complications of childbirth (maximum penalty: five years in prison). Court officials could remember no precedent in Louisiana and few elsewhere...
Easygoing Vincent Auriol is the sort of incumbent the French public wants (but has seldom had) in the presidential Elysee Palace, a genial, approachable man who possesses enough native dignity to give his job as chief of state just a wisp of kingly bearing...
...well . . . We take our children over the surface of the whole earth, seeking the one who can heal. We spend all the money we have and we borrow until there is no one else to lend. We go to doctors good and bad, to anyone, for only a wisp of hope...
...transactions of 4,860,000 shares, the greatest since Sept. 5, 1939. The number of individual issues traded (1,260 out of nearly 1,500 listed) broke all records. The market kept rising the next day, but it was still so nervous that any wisp of news set it churning. On Thursday a new wave of selling started, and by day's end the industrial average was down another 7.96 points...
...with chambers of commerce across the nation, getting the names of local streets, parks and people. This week Jean was laboring her usual twelve hours a day in her new $5,000 studio. Built inside her home, it is equipped with a microphone sensitive enough to pick up each wisp of her breath and every sugary nuance of her voice...