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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is still no drug cure for rheumatic heart disease. Patients need complete rest and good nursing care, perhaps for many months. Under the Montefiore plan, mothers are taught to keep a chart of temperature, pulse, etc. A visiting nurse calls regularly to give instruction in home nursing and to check up for the doctor. A dietician gives advice on proper meals...
Council efficiency came one step closer last Fall, when the group streamlined what was once an amazingly tangled network of committees, sub-committees, etc. Now the Council must eliminate more of the kinks, and see if it can't boost its batting average...
...Smoker Committee needed publicity and the Sportsman's and Boat Show needed publicity. The Managing Editor gave us the assignment and subway fare to Mechanics Hall. The handout, in the best public relations tradition, oozed: "Lovely Ann Curtis, the Olympic swim star, currently appearing at the etc, etc, faces a seathing denunciation at the hands of those vocal undergrads of Harvard if she doesn't accept their bid to the Freshman Smoker. The difficulty began when Ann and her famous Olympic partner, Adolph Kiefer, agreed to perform at the Yale..."You get the angle...
...American state who tries to make his country a United States in miniature. All he knows about the Leviathan to the north, though, is what he has learned from reading Life magazine for 26 years. This plot twist brings in a standard repertoire of North American racketeers, movie stars, etc...
...antagonist was thin, sandy-haired Leonard Lord, who had gone to work for Nuffield back in 1932. He became Nuffield's chief assistant, was in charge of the far-flung Nuffield organization (Morris, M. G. and Wolseley cars, trucks, etc.). But when Leonard Lord showed that he had a mind of his own, Nuffield quickly kicked him upstairs to run one of his many charities...