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...MORRIS FISHBEIN...
Great Mouthpiece. It was this department, says the association itself, "that gave the A.M.A. stature with the public." But A.M.A.'s best remembered stature giver was a rasp-voiced, acid-penned doctor named Morris Fishbein, who became editor of the A.M.A. Journal in 1924.* Editor Fishbein had opinions on everything even remotely medical and expressed them unhesitatingly, often without a by-your-leave to A.M.A.'s top officers and trustees. He crusaded against anything "socialistic," by which he meant virtually any proposal to alter medical practice or payment procedures...
...received 500,000 letters urging him to run for President as the Republican candidate. But by the end of the decade, the enthusiasm for goat glands had subsided (although Brinkley made $810,000 in 1939). He lost a libel suit against his archenemy, the A.M.A.'s Dr. Morris Fishbein. The goat doctor retired from quackery, and in 1941, after prudently shifting most of his wealth to his wife and friends, declared bankruptcy. Sadly he told the court: "I don't think there is but two Cadillacs left...
...year later, he was dead of a heart ailment. Dr. Fishbein had already written his obituary: "Centuries to come may never produce again such blatancy, such fertility of imagination or such...
Richard N. Goodwin has recently been elected president of next year's board of the Harvard Law Review. Also on the new board are the following: Treasurer, Loyd M. Starrett; Article Editors, Arnold N. Enker and Arthur R. Miller; Note Editors, William V. Kane and Peter M. Fishbein; Case Editors, Daniel J. Gifford and Richard J. Medalie; Book Review Editor, Thomas B. Leary; Developments Editor, Jack H. Friedenthal. All the new board-members are second-year law students...