Word: alle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Box 44 sit two men the radio audience never hears. Engineer Charles C. Grey has a control panel at his fingertips; Production Man Herbert Liversidge hardly lifts his eyes from an edited, last-minute score. Liversidge reads the score some six bars ahead, keeps Grey posted with hand signals...
Milton Cross has won all sorts of prizes for dewy diction, but even he bumbles one now & then. The one he laughingly denies, although many others remember it lovingly, is the time he presented, with great fanfare, "The A & G Pypsies." Last semester, anxious to keep his diction up to...
Harvard's choleric surgeon, Hugh Cabot (the Boston tribe which according to legend "speaks only to God"), is vice chair man of the Committee of Physicians, a group of 1,000 critical American Medical Association members. For three years Dr. Cabot has stamped and stormed for group medical service...
The world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often...
Medical editors frown upon literary graces as Puritans frowned upon dancing. Almost all medical reports are warty with Greek and Latin jargon: "Etiologic factors" for "causes," "acute coryza" for "the common cold," "osseous structures" for "bones." Yet the modern physician's bible, Sir William Osier's Principles and...