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Enough. In The Bronx, a sign hanging in a closed cleaning and pressing shop read...
...Sidney Rothbard put the technique to wide practical use at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx. Last week he reported at a meeting of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association that on 1,200 serum samples from 950 patients the test was 92.3% accurate. "This test," said he, "gives the doctors a new tool. It should not be thought of as a test to displace the X ray or any other standard method...
...return to office reached Hong Kong, headlines in the pro-Communist press jeered: BALDHEAD GOING BACK TO THRONE. In New York City, where he has been convalescing from his stomach operation for almost three months, Acting President Li Tsung-jen received reporters on a windswept terrace in the Bronx. While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington to eat a hearty lunch with President Truman...
Grand Junction, as a result, has developed the same hard-eyed passion for champion bird dogs which The Bronx reserves for baseball players. Last week, with the town jammed to the last spare room by the annual pilgrimage of top U.S. dog men, Grand Junction's waitresses, its housewives, its postmaster, and the room clerk at its lone hotel had a new canine hero-a small (46 Ibs.) but dashing pointer-named Shore's Brownie Doone...
Actually, the Ewing plan would not make much difference to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield subscriber, such as the Bronx freight handler, in terms of dollars. Most directly benefited by it would be millions of Americans who live in areas where no such plan is available, or who do not qualify for membership because they cannot get into a "group membership" plan, or who are not regularly employed, or who simply cannot afford the premiums. For subscribers to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield types of insurance above the income cutoff, the Ewing plan would offer an apparent saving in years...