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...fourth of the full-time teachers of professorial rank on the faculties of the nation's 85 medical schools were educated at the Harvard Medical School, Dean George Packer Berry noted, and the 550 post-Doctorate research and teaching fellows at Harvard are one-third of the country's total. By 1975, medical schools in the U.S. will have to produce 3,500 more doctors a year just to maintain the present ratio of doctors to population, Berry said...
This attack on 19th century optimism sounds familiar today, but it was still revolutionary in Hulme's time. He enrolled the contending doctrines under the party labels of Romanticism and Classicism and offered definitions of each which rank as classic. The romantic view is "that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstances"; the classical "that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To one party man's nature is like a well, to the other like a bucket." To Hulme, romanticism was "spilt religion": "You don't believe...
...went Julian Amery, Macmillan's son-in-law; the eleventh Duke of Devonshire, his wife's nephew, became Parliamentary Undersecretary for Commonwealth Relations. For the honorific task of moving the reply to the Queen's speech from the throne, Macmillan chose his son Maurice from the rank of Tory backbenchers...
...Steps (Rank; 20th Century-Fox) suggests that if few figures in the movie world can fill Alfred Hitchcock's trousers, fewer still are qualified to retrace his Steps. The 1935 Hitchcock version of The 39 Steps that starred Madeleine Carroll and the late Robert Donat was a sensitively controlled crescendo of excitement-perhaps the best .chase picture of its generation. The new version, directed by Britain's Ralph (Doctor in the House) Thomas, is simply a pleasant little comedy of murders...
SODA FOUNTAINS are disappearing from drugstores. Only 60% of the nation's 53,000 pharmacies still have them. In coming decades they may rank with cigar-store Indians as curiosities. Reason: pharmacists are too expensive to be selling fizzes; acceptable soda jerks are hard to find at salaries the stores can afford...