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...Barbara Mullen), a heartbroken feminist, fled from the contemptuous jails of England. One (Frederick Cooper), a consumptive workman, fled from the inhumanities of a Victorian factory. One (Frederick Valk), a Viennese physician who prediscovered anesthesia, fled from the bigotries of the clergy and of his own profession. All, as the moved journalist hears them out, rebuke themselves and him for despair against whatever odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story...
...injured hand. A theatrical costumer (Agnes Moorhead) gives him clothes. Not all the people he meets are brave, or intelligent, or kind. His former sweetheart (Karen Verne) has married a Nazi, his brother is a Storm Trooper. But his old friend Paul Roeder (Hume Cronyn), a rabbity little workman who is grateful to the Führer for his job and his three babies, also turns out to have a heart...
...racket works: an injured workman is told by a "steerer" (usually a lawyer or insurance man) which doctor to go to; the doctor then pads his fees to double the normal amount (or, more often, by prolonging treatment unnecessarily) and sends a kickback to the steerer. If the doctor refers the patient to a specialist or an X-ray laboratory, he gets a second piece of dirty money when the specialist or laboratory pads fees in turn and kicks some back...
...Navy needs 370 chaplains immediately, will need 500 more in the next six months to keep pace with its new ships, increased overseas duty. Said Chief of Navy Chaplains Robert D. Workman last week: "If additional clergymen do not apply for the chaplaincy,. . . men in uniform will be denied the consolation and inspiration of a religious ministry during the most crucial and soul-testing period of their lives...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...