Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Mystery Man. Actually, none of the 235 papers (combined circ. 27 million) which print Rex Morgan should have been surprised at his new adventure. In the 2½ years since the strip first appeared, Rex Morgan's concern with the problems of medical life has prompted him to take up questions that old-fashioned cartoonists and some editors might well think "had no place" on a comic page. But for its sharp and accurate commentary on medical problems, Rex Morgan, M.D. has won the admiration of medical men across the land...
...American story. With the war left out, the American character is incomprehensible, and dangerously so. In 1861 and in 1950, the American represented himself (and believed himself) as despising politics and loving comfort above all men. Yet the American has always been deeply political, a man with a burning concern as to who may tell whom to do what...
...world wars, the U.S. bears a measure of guilt in not making this concern clear to those who were to become her enemies. One of the friends of the U.S. understood without being told. Commager, in his introduction, repeats a Winston Churchill story: the day of Pearl Harbor, some Britons doubted that the easygoing U.S. had the will and stamina to fight as it would have to fight. Says Churchill: "But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch ... I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful...
Nichols, outlining the duties of the F.B.I., said he looked forward t the day when his organization did not need to concern itself with investigations to the present extent, but could serve instead as a kind of central information service for responsible local law enforcing groups...
Wilder added, however, that this very abstraction is America's hope for a great body of literature. "The author must tell what be knows," he said, "and not concern himself with the repercussions...