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Three thousand surgeons drifted into Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week. It was easy to see that they were surgeons, not physicians. The physician is apt to be benign, a trifle careless of his dress, slow in speech. The surgeon, on the other hand, tends to talk swiftly, dress meticulously, gesture boldly. There are always more evening clothes at a surgeons' meet than at a physicians'. This was the American College of Surgeons, at its 21st annual clinical congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...your issue of June 1 President Hoover is quoted: "Like so many benign social agencies it [the Red Cross] sprang from the mind and the heart of a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1931 | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...Paramount) is an excessively stupid little production which serves no apparent purpose except to belittle the talents of Cinemactress Sylvia Sidney who is featured in it. She appears as a college student bedazzled by a classmate (Phillips Holmes) whose toothy smiles will seem to audiences less seductive than benign. When he seduces and deserts her, she marries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again Arbuckle? | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Swiss relative, President Max Huber of the International Red Cross, Chief Justice Hughes and many another assembled at the New Willard Hotel for a Red Cross "golden jubilee" dinner. Declared President Hoover: "The Red Cross is one of the most beautiful flowers of the American spirit. . . . Like so many benign social agencies, it sprang from the mind and the heart of a woman. Clara Barton was in her own person and her own life all that the Red Cross has since become. . . . The Johnstown flood found her ready and within an hour after it was reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Way Out | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...keep the drug away from quacks.) But for fame the two men-Dr. Coffey. 63, and Dr. Humber, 36-are avid. "A Square Deal" When Dr. Swing's turn came last week to say why Drs. Coffey & Humber should be excluded from New York, he was a benign Dutch uncle: "The most important question is whether Drs. Coffey and Humber are getting a square deal from the organized medical profession. I am very much concerned about that. A good many physicians have said that it would be a great pity if the organized medical profession should by virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: California v. New York | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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