Word: addison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue-eyed Clarence Addison Dykstra marched up the Hill last week, smiling and waving to undergraduates. In his spacious, comfortable office, he stretched his long legs and relaxed. He was glad to be back as University of Wisconsin's president. But Dr. Dykstra, home in Madison from a year in Washington (Selective Service Director, Defense Mediator), knew better than most college presidents that he would find no isolation on his campus. In a nation under arms, colleges had new things to do, new facts to face...
Though far from being a drug on the market, the number of sulfa drugs has increased so rapidly during the past two years that not even doctors can keep their uses straight. In the July issue of California and Western Medicine last week, Drs. Lowell Addison Rantz and Windsor Cooper Cutting gave a brief review of the whole sulfonamide family, with the diseases on which each drug works best. The ideal sulfa drug, they said, is still to seek. Requirements: it must be as strong as possible, without poisoning the patient...
...patient, a middle-aged woman, was dying. She had just been brought in to the Jewish Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. She was a victim of Addison's disease, a slow decline of the adrenal glands which cap the kidneys, gush forth the hormone cortin and the supercharging adrenalin when the nervous system signals "Emergency!" No synthetic hormones or drugs had been able to save...
Married. Barbara Bennett, least divorced of Hollywood's Bennett sisters (Barbara, Constance, Joan); and Horse-Opera Player Addison ("Jack") Randall. Her only previous husband was Crooner Morton Downey; Randall's only ex-wife is Louise Stanley (but they were married and divorced twice...
...public's" representatives were: Chairman Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of University of Wisconsin, director of the draft (a job he will resign), onetime city manager of Cincinnati, son of a Dutch minister; Frank Porter Graham, president of University of North Carolina, Southern-born, a fiery and apostolic liberal; and William Hammatt Davis, New York City patent attorney, former chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. Wild-haired, level-headed Mr. Davis rehearsed for his new job by sitting in judgment on the New York City bus strike, which was ended last week...