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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Today, when 74-year-old Dr. Luce is not actually treating patients, he serves as school doctor, trustee of the local library, and member of the local board of health. In his spare time, he attends postgraduate courses and pursues a favorite hobby-writing for the district medical paper which he edited last year. Between times he follows research on diabetes, from which he himself has suffered since he served as a captain in World...
...artist, 27-year-old Denis Williams, was no loincloth primitive. The son of a textile manufacturer, he had gone to high school in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, worked as a postal clerk. Five years ago some of his spare-time paintings caught the eye of a British Council representative, won him an art scholarship in England...
...Professor Robert M. Hawkins of Vanderbilt University's School of Religion thought it a military rather than a moral question. "To me the atom bomb is just another weapon . . . Any weapon is inhumane, and I would rather be blown up with an atom bomb than bayoneted...
...people tend to be on the quiet side; they're subtle, more confidential, and much more personal." In evidence, Kaye points to his top TV pitchman, William "Hoppy" Haupt, a college graduate (Loyola of Los Angeles) and a former teacher at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College Labor School. Says Kaye admiringly: "Hoppy does everything except gadgets. He's extraordinary at selling finer quality merchandise...
Life in Independence. In the death of Charles Griffith Ross, 65, Harry Truman lost not only an able press secretary but one of his closest friends. They grew up together in Independence, Mo., graduated together in Independence High School's class of 1901. Their teacher, Miss Tillie Brown, liked to say: "Oh, Harry Truman wasn't my brightest boy. Charlie Ross...