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Word: compositor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La., the blind editor-patient okayed the last story as it was read to him. Compositor-patients put the paper to bed. Printer-patients ran off 8,000 copies. Then the whole press run was baked, to sterilize it. Last week the tenth anniversary edition of the Star went out to subscribers in 48 states and 30 foreign countries. The Star's single-minded editorial objective: to knock down misconceptions about Hansen's disease, as the 400 Carville patients call their illness-in popular parlance, leprosy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crusade in Carville | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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