Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier this year Idler presented two contempopary one-act plays: Tennessee Williams' "At Liberty" and Christopher Morley's "The Rehearsal." The plays appeared for a one-night stand October...
...medical care and let the government pay the doctor's bill. A check in Birmingham showed that 97% of the people tested actually needed glasses, and manufacturers of frames are two months behind in their orders. Two thirds of Britain's dentists have signed up under the act; many are swamped with drill-and-forceps work on the notoriously bad British teeth...
...act has created its own legends. A puzzle still unsolved by the Ministry of Health: the case of the dentist who pulled two of his own teeth, and sent in a claim for payment to himself. Last week* a butcher in Dudley, Worcestershire, asked for three pairs of eyeglasses: one for reading, one for looking at far-off things, one for chopping meat. He got them. In Cambridge, an elderly woman, bald since the age of six, asked for a wig. Ruled S. W. Davis, the pensions officer: "She will be provided with two wigs, as one occasionally...
Many doctors who vainly fought the act through the British Medical Association (TIME, March 1) remain unconvinced. The Labor Government was smart, grumbles the B.M.A. unofficially, in starting the service in July, when sickness rates are lowest: just wait until winter epidemics start jamming the doctors' already crowded offices...
...Also last week the act paid for delivery of its first quadruplets...