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Cissie Patterson's feud with Pearson & Allen was more complex and fiercer than the others in which she often engages. She has close family and professional ties with Columnist Drew Pearson. He is her ex-son-in-law and father of her only granddaughter Ellen, now 15, in whose favor Cissie was said to have drawn a will leaving her fortune (about $40,000,000) and the Times-Herald...
...conferences these results are correlated, and if possible conclusions are drawn. For example, the psychiatrists may know that a man is interested in government, its but tends toward shyness and an inferiority complex, that that he is friendly and dependent on others. When Miss Savage compares the results of her tests with what the psychiatrists know about the man, she can see which questions are accurate and useful in appraising the man, and which are useless and false...
...uses collectivism "for want of a better term, to designate in the most general way the tendency to integrate the individual into the complex organization of our modern industrial society in such a manner as to obtain more efficiency from and-if possible-more security for that individual. If this definition is accepted, it will be seen that the practical aims of such varied political doctrines or systems as those of Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Social Democracy are the same...
...Harry Hopkins' munitions man on the United Nations High Command, General Burns had done a crackerjack job. He was a work horse in starting the infinitely complex Lend-Lease, has had a hand in distributing all military equipment to the Allies ever since. If anybody knows what and how much materiel each of the United Nations needs, General Burns is the man. He also knows the right people-which is very important in Washington...
Solutions thus treated acquire the various characteristics of a natural blood serum which would be obtained from an animal immunized with the same antigen. The Caltech researchers have already prepared antibodies against a few simple chemical antigens (e.g., methyl blue), and are working toward more complex antigens such as snake venoms and viruses...