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By WAMBLY BALD
"1 am just a simple individl!al. There is nothii
tacujar aboqt me."
Dr. Florence R. Sabin, Colorado's hard-hitting
crusader who was visiting here, said that with an
impatience, as if anxious to shoo the lvporter away.
It was only when she spoke
of public health programs that  made life mkrable *o
hrr severe manner soltened a cians, gal the press i
liltlc.

Then one Saw that here ~a3  in. Colorado's need fo
firmness, objectivityi\especially re
when she began: "The whole
hcalrh drive is just like this.. .".
And as she pressed one fist into
the palm of her other hand and
talked on, very quietly and very
gravely, one became aware of
her rocklikc force and the

at1tu
the
Johns -Hopkins Universll,
the first woman elected
    . -       _ ^

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the difTlculties that ...-___r._ )__
Women of scle   eve beset
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' square cut of her jaw.
"I tried lo take health out at
polmcs in Colorado," she was G
saying, imprrsonally, as if read.
in$ a scientific paper to a com-
mitree.                 of as a h8
.And he

whom CoJ -.-I_ _ .___. _____.._. ,
LPI- Knous, had called "an atom  quaLr "`a~' yrurw
bhmb" and "a dynamo."

                 milk and water pollution. And
                                  th t  tu-  sister, a wured school teacher.
<.**-  , #._.-.._a. *. . ..-.      herCUlOSiS W&5 rue a Or& the In Denper. she/l&s with Fer
                                         She new-z+ smak P. hut XhP &ill

investigafors  learned rd I nade- Still Ready to T/wkle
               A Good &Oikd Stprk

a,,rreu L"l`WmmJ 10 nceo
Of Publle Heallh Reform
In appearance, the eminent
health crusader and scientist

; S?bln adds ;t Is award to a score
qtven her I orlng her (@year
career of
phatics,  y search on the lym.
      the blood cell& and ves-
sels, bone E
   II arrow. and tuber-
culosis.

"Coloradbfs health programs
needed an overhaulina." she was

state, motoring

wit'
Uabl

The Bills Went Throu

ments rang out
holders scurried to i
situation. She

in Denver, was the

Coffee In the

hours' sleep. an
frne.    I
Dr. Sabln admitted lhat she

porch: now and then.

and awrm. but I'm g&ting a
if: on In years for that,"lshr
   "4 have even glvell up
bridge and knItlIng."
In r&ding and mnsic.:`her
taste .ruhs to Ihe classics 1 gen.
erally. But she ronsidrrs, WI11
Rogers' humo
she enjoys hea
moderns. such 3 "wonderf uli! and
        ing some ot Ihe
         as

Govern& and ayor
    if  Gershwin.
           t

Are d'Wonderfh People"
She Qesn't k for mp, ies,
      '1
but shelenjoys, the theaIre: and
she snolte of tHr summer PI'OUO

,

       FYXL r,,"," Y C"L..SC.
hard-hitting crus er.
    a4    .

She spoke of mass s
a grand scale Ileede
tuberculosis,

grams that will makd the pub
IIc understapd health hazards
lnntEydo, and throughout the
     .

+ew York State" she de-
clared," has a tradition of %
men In Its Heallh Dept. But
members lack the tujlds to do

IUIetly, stop fighiind