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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost Weekend. 1945 Academy Award winner (TIME...
...Hume's account of his years in China, which won the $3,500 Norton Medical Award for 1946, is sketchy and unpretentious, but full of anecdote and East-West contrasts. Hunan 40 years ago had only recently admitted foreigners, and even substantial citizens still clung to their old ways. According to Chinese medical lore, the pulses were of prime importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened...
...Pulitzer award carries a stipend...
Notable tributes of the week: Haile Selassie got the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Award from the African Academy of Arts and Research (Manhattan) for his "contribution to international peace and good will." Recalled the chairman of the award committee: the in-&-out Emperor had long ago done his best to "impress 52 nations with the need of stopping aggression...
...Lost Weekend. 1945 Academy Award winner (TIME...