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Senate Leader. Two years ago, before the late Robert A. Taft claimed the majority leadership. Bill Knowland brashly announced his own candidacy for the post. Then, during his fatal illness, Taft appointed him acting majority leader. Helen Knowland foresaw her husband's difficulty as majority leader. Wrote she: "He's never had to compromise, but he'll have to now, and that will be hard work. Billy will need a new technique." Billy tried compromise and met with some notable failures (e.g., last winter's Bricker Amendment wrangle...
...great man of science who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction and thereby initiated the Atomic Age. This week in Chicago, Enrico Fermi, 53, died of cancer. If he had lived a few years longer, medical techniques growing out of his own discoveries might have rid him of his fatal disease...
...whole show comes in the Second Act when a man named Paul Valentine skips around the stage singing "My Fatal Charm." That this number and Mr. Valentine do not have charm and, indeed, are almost loathsome is not a disaster. But Miss Irra Petina, the show's leading lady, is likewise unblessed. Along with her strong voice, Miss Petina projects a chill which seems to come right from the heart. Although even a Shirley Booth couldn't salvage On With the Show, Miss Petina estranges the audience just a bit further. Her co-star, Robert Wright, plays a Nevada banker...
Although Congressman Jacob K. Javits was a strong opponent and won many Jewish votes away from him, Roosevelt showed fatal weaknesses among certain other traditionally Democratic groups in the state, which do not have very much reverence for the Roosevelt name at present. The allegedly colorless Harriman ran 150,000 votes ahead of him and the little-known candidate for controller topped his total by almost the same margin...
...This baffling disease of unknown origin afflicts an estimated 250,000 in the U.S. with varying degrees of incapacity, usually in the legs and arms, often involving speech and vision. Damaging the nerve sheaths in the brain and spinal column, multiple sclerosis may take many forms, from a quickly fatal attack to a 30-year lingering illness punctuated by long periods of relative freedom. Histamine, vitamins and a variety of drugs have aroused high hopes in some researchers and their patients, only to prove disappointing in the long...