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...four nominations: ¶ For Assistant Secretary in charge of labor standards, instead of Edelman: Harrison Clayton Hobart, 64, an assistant grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a self-styled "rock-ribbed Republican." ¶For Assistant Secretary (international labor affairs): Spencer Miller Jr., 62, adult-education specialist, president of the union-sponsored International University in Springfield. Mass...
Almost simultaneously, Heart Specialist Irving S. Wright reported opposite and alarming results after experiments with trypsin which he and Dr. Alex Taylor did at New York Hospital. Half their rabbits died, and were found to have blood clots or hemorrhages in the heart and lungs. Dr. Wright quoted two other doctors who had given trypsin to nine human patients: six of them developed a total of eleven blood clots in the veins into which the enzyme was dripped. Dr. Wright concluded that trypsin should not yet be made available for general prescription...
...plot is one of those farfetched todos about a wife (Jane Wyman) who discovers that her husband (Ray Milland) has been playfully running around Manhattan with a specialist in tribal-ritual puberty dances (Valerie Bettis) when he was supposed to have been in Chicago on business. In retaliation, she invents a romance of her own. This leads to divorce proceedings. The trio becomes a foursome when a rich square (Aldo Ray) from the Klondike stakes out a romantic claim on Jane during the interlocutory period of the divorce. All in all, Let's Do It Again strains too hard...
Within 24 hours, Utah's Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Lyon's sponsor, withdrew his support. Then Lyon himself, realizing that the committee would not confirm him, withdrew his name. Director John J. Forbes, a coal mine safety specialist who has worked in the bureau 38 years, will stay on until someone else is appointed. The main responsibility for proposing so vulnerable a nominee as Lyon rested on one man: Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, who had insisted that Lyon...
...William T. ("Lap") Laprade, 69, who started teaching history at Durham's little Trinity College in 1909, went right on without turning a hair as the college vanished in a cloud of tobacco smoke and emerged as one of the richest and most gothic of U.S. universities. A specialist on the 18th century, Lap paced about his platform, waved his arms, laced his lectures with gossipy bulletins about the scandals and scoundrels, the brains and bunglers, of the courts and cabinets of yore. Pretending never to be satisfied ("Well," he would say of the best of papers, "this...