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...dramatic changes in the practice of medicine during Thomas's lifetime are the focus of the book. When his father, also a doctor, practiced medicine in the early 1900s, few doctors profitted financially and most felt helpless because they couldn't cure patients. Medical schools focused on diagnosis, the art--and as Thomas describes it, it was an art--of determining an ailment from a few external symptoms. They learned how to recognize illnesses without being able to treat them...
Critics of the asbestos industry charge that the mineral's harmful effects were first documented in the early 1900s and that evidence of its health hazards grew steadily over the next five decades. Asbestos-related illnesses, however, often take 20 to 40 years to develop. Thus asbestos victims were not diagnosed in large numbers until the late 1960s...
Gerald Gutierrez's adroit direction prevents the basic plot-line of a jockey's love for an heiress from ever dragging. He adds dimensions to the characters, allowing them to transcend their early 1900s conventions. Goldie Gates, the madcap heiress from San Francisco (Maureen Brennan), trails her love, Johnny Jones (Donny Osmond), across a continent and an ocean, not out of subservience, but from a need to fulfill her own desires. She appears to us as assertive intelligent, and independent...
...went the opposite route of most anthropologists," Moore said. "I didn't look for the simplest society." The Chagga are good subjects for research, she said, because in the early 1900s a missionary documented their early history, which provides an insight into the more recent changes in their culture...
DIED. Emma Bugbee, 93, suffragist and onetime high school teacher of Greek who broke through the barriers excluding women from city rooms in the early 1900s to become a reporter for the New York Herald, later the New York Herald Tribune; in Warwick, R.I. During her 56-year career, Bugbee was especially noted for her intimate coverage of Eleanor Roosevelt, who held her own press conferences for female journalists, banned from the all-male presidential briefings...