Description: Remarks on a recent series of articles in 'The National Underwriter' on risk selection and related regulation.

Description: The author provides an update on the Academy of Actuaries' unsuccessful attempts to obtain a Federal Charter and the partially successful attempts to get state recognition by way of licensing or a charter.

Description: This article summarizes two special mortality and lapse studies - experience on Term Conversions and Guaranteed Insurability Options between 1961 and 1966 policy anniversaries.

Description: This article summarizes the 1967 Surgeon General’s report on the health consequences of smoking.

Description: This article is about a proposed Amendment to the Society of Actuaries Constitution that will permit the Society to take a public position on the actuarial content of matters within the area of public interest.

Description: There is a story, probably apocryphal, about The Marriage of Figaro, that Mozart, just before the curtain went up on the first performance, discovered that he had omitted to furnish an overture. Nothing daunted, he sat down and in no time flat dashed off the score of the overture.

Description: Arthur Pedoe Obituary: Summary of many essays Mr. Pedoe published on a variety of topics dealing with the actuarial profession

Description: Adlai Stevenson is reported to have described the duties of an editor as separating the wheat from the chaff and throwing away the wheat. Perhaps this emphasis on the chaff is one reason why we have frequent difficulties in determining the actual month of issue. On the other hand, the editors ally themselves with Jack Point who said “O winnow all my folly and you’ll find a grain or two of truth among the chaff.”

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 talks about an exposure draft. The Exposure Draft of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on Audits of Life Insurance Companies has not apparently had among actuaries the wide circulation it deserves, judging by the relatively few responses to Robert Winters letter in the February issue of The Actuary. This is a most important document because it affects not only the accounting practices of life insurance companies but also the status of the actuarial profession.

Description: article about humorous actuarial stereotypes