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...professor rushed to New York, embalmed the gorilla immediately, and then shipped him to Cambridge as an addition to his large primate collection. Handled with utmost care, the 12 year old animal is still in excellent condition, and Dr. Erikson feels confident that he will be able to prosect his monster indefinitely...
Sober Choice. But the King and his doctors faced a sober question which only George VI himself could answer. Should he try to prolong his life to the utmost by taking scrupulous care never to tax his heart, and become a perpetual invalid? Or should he live, as much as possible, the life of a normal man of 56? In the background, too, there was the inevitable question of a reappearance of cancer...
During the past year, the caretakers of this column have attempted to right wrongs, expose malfeasance, suggest reforms, edify their readers, and write an editorial for every paper. They have succeeded in their last aim to the utmost degree, often at the expense of gross distortion of the other aims. But, as the alert reader may have noticed, certain outside individuals and groups have been constantly at work, often unwillingly, always unwittingly, to provide continuity in the editorial page. It is to those individuals and groups that out thanks must go in the last editorial of this term...
...propose to support that person who is well qualified and more certain to win in November. A Republican victory this year is of the utmost importance to our country," the statement concluded...
...Profound Shift. The British "utmost," if Churchill's words meant what they seemed to say, included a profound shift in the British outlook on China. Said the Prime Minister: "You have wisely been resolute, members of Congress, in confronting Chinese Communist aggression. We take our stand at your side . . . I am very glad that whatever diplomatic divergencies there may be from time to time about procedure, you do not allow the Chinese anti-Communists on Formosa to be invaded and massacred from the mainland...