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FILE NAME: Maryland Casualty Company (MCC) DATE: 1955 Nov DOC#: MCC011 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: The Insurance Index [Cover Page, TOC & List of Officers] Q uote: Cimi't fumi )><i^e I. farther by giving social security priority by selling it to the public as a base on which to add whatever life insurance a man feels he needs. We have gone so far at times as to make life insurance a fringe benefit--to be tacked on to more substantial bene fits promised rather indefinitely by a government whose benevolence has to dale been exceeded only by its unwillingness to face up realistically to an assured method of raising the money to pay the same benefits." Albert C. Adams, Philadelphia, chairmaii of the NALU Committee on Social Security. Life partner . . . "Accident and sick ness insurance in all its phases is an integral part of the life underwriter's programming and economic advisership service to the client . . . Life insurance and accident insurance have the same economic basis, namely the dollar value of human life. There are only two types of economic values: life values and property values; therefore only two main types of insurance -- life in surance and property insurance." Dr. S. S. Huebner, C.L.U. educator. Unintentional foul? . . . "I do not believe that our great first-line con servative companies have set out willfully to destroy the agency sys tem as we have known it. If I read the signs of the times correctly the trends of our economy are buffeting about even our great insurance in stitutions. In addition, smaller and newer companies, determined to un seat the insurance royally of the past, have thumbed their nose at tradition, and assumed the LouisGraziano pose of fistic combat rather than that of Gentleman Jim Cor bett." Harry K. Gutmann, CLU, New York. P u b lish e r ^ JA M E S E. DUNNE A ssociate P u b lish er VERNON D. BLANK General M anager ARLXE W. BAKER H- M anaging E ditor HERB LITTLEFIELD E ditor In su ran ce M edicine FR E D E R IC R. STEA R N S, M.D A ssociate E ditors THOM AS L. ROBBINS. MANUEL STEVENS B usiness M anager ROBERT L. SCHELL C irculation M anager PAT TALIAFERRO T echnical A dvisors THOMAS GRAHAM Investm ents HENRY J. STITES Legal THE INSURANCE INDEX P re sid e n t CHARLES D. DUNNE E xecutive V ice President A RLIE W. BAKER Vice P resid e n t an d Secretary JAM ES E. DUNNE II Vice P resid e n t and Asst. Sccy. IDA L . DUNNE Vice P re sid e n t FRED T. FERGUSON Vice P resid e n t VERNON D. BLANK Vice P resid e n t F. W. BECK T icasurer THOMAS GRAHAM A ssistant T reasurer THOM AS II. HAYDEN. JR. A ssistant Secretary LILLIA N FERGUSON 2 NOVEMBER, 19 55 I N D E X tnnurnnrc l KitniriW NOVEMBER, 1955 Vol. XVII, No. 12 H eralding th e com ing blasts of w inter, pum pkins, stuffed turkeys and C hristm as trees, M ike R oberts, o u tstan d in g C alifornia p h o to g rap h er, su p plied the Index w ith ' th e above fireside scene fo r its N ovem ber co ver. T h e p h o to is ideally sym bolic no t only of the season in gen eral b u t also of u p p er C alifornia as a w inter-sports playground the year around. Possible caption for this p articu lar photo: "Lucky D og!" Insurance Medicine Editorial 86 Medical Digest 87 Current Literature 90 25c per copy Established 1870 MEDICAL & GENERAL R E F ER EN C E LI ^VETERANS ADMINISTRATION Quote: i WASHINGTON, D.C. Comments of noted insurance figures Of Many Things 4 Insurance news highlights Calendar of Events (i Important convention dates To Forgive, Define! 24 A few Hubbard "definitions" A Visit To Battle Creek 28 About two rising insurance companies Xerographically Yours! 40 Ditto creates new process Life Section 44 A few of the facts of "life" Fire and Casualty Section 55 Featuring company activities Accident and Health Section 04 A b ll news in capsule r Accent on $elling 74 Casa histories of sales successes THE IN SU R A N C E IN D E X In c lu d in g In su ran ce M edicine is p u b lish ed m o n th ly by TH E INSURANCE P U B L IS H IN G C O . E d ito ria l. A d v e rtisin g a n d B usiness d e p a rtm e n ts . 915 E. K e n tu ck y S t., L o u is v ille 4. K y . P . O . B o x 1738. E n te re d as sec o n d c la s s m a tte r S e p te m b e r 27, 1939. a t P o s t O ffic e a t L o u isv ille . K y ,, u n d e r th e A c t o i M arch 3. 1879. A n n u a l s u b s c r ip tion ra te s: one y e a r, $2.00 S u b sc rip tio n s p ay ab le In a d v an ce; in th e U n ite d S ta le s and Possessions, C uba, M exico, C en tra l A m erica (ex cep t B ritish H ond u ras) a n d S o u th A m erica iexcept th e G u la n a s) $2.00; in C an ad a $2.50; elsew h ere $3.00. Notice o f c h an g e o f a d d ress m ust b e re c e iv e d o n e m o n th b e fo re c h a n g e Is to ta k e p la c e ; b o th o ld a n d n e w a d d re s s e s should be given. THE INSURANCE INDEX 3