Word: dumbness
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...Robert Cutter, president of Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., wrote in his annual report to stockholders: "We are up to our ears in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine production. Around the middle of the year you are either going to look on this decision as being very dumb or very smart, depending on how the poliomyelitis vaccine turns out." Last week, as a result of the Salk vaccine, the company was up to its ears in the most unfavorable corporation publicity in recent years. More and more medical men were asking for a re-examination of Salk vaccine production techniques...
...meeting with G. B. Shaw when Lady Astor introduced me as the great blind and deaf social worker. She kept trying to impress the testy Shaw and make him take more notice of me. He was goaded into saying, 'All Americans are blind, deaf and dumb.' " As the listening newsmen politely registered indignation, Social Worker Keller sixth-sensed their reaction, graciously exonerated Shaw: "I do not hold it against him. In fact, I am a great admirer of his witticisms . . . He would have been more gracious if Lady Astor had not provoked...
...religious tone continues in PEOPLE with a reference to Billy Graham's understandable reluctance to include man's dumb friends in his ministrations . . . Follows the RELIGION section. Good taste prohibits critical comment of other people's devotional gymnastics . . . CINEMA includes a review of a minister's filmed biography. Boy, oh boy, did you go overboard! We cannot help but admire the fine attitude of your reviewer, who bewails the fact that "the story has depressingly little to say about religion . . ." You strike the final blow for the church in BOOKS-by printing the miserable caricature...
...authority--commissioned Army carpenters to make classrooms out of them and hi-jacked a shipment of chairs headed for GHQ. Acting with consummate nerve, Seavey even turned in an order for a thousand fountain pens to equip the students he did not yet have. (The Army was not that dumb, however; it refused.) Finally, just four days after the whole thing started, he was ready to begin teaching. More than 150 students showed up and the school lasted--very successfully--for some three months. He ended up with another medal, the French Officier d'Academie, but that--so he says...
...conquering free India legally through the ballot box, into which six years of painstaking work had gone, lay defeated and discredited. "I do not understand how it happened," muttered one Andhra Communist, a gaunt man with curly hair, whose job it had been to subvert the untouchables. "The stupid, dumb, illiterate masses have let us down. We should go underground and recommence our violent struggle...