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Headed by a Mrs. Louisa Pottesman, 30 fervent women have been buzzing about London for months, collecting other women's signatures. Collectors and signers had one thing in common-all had been patients of a young gynecologist named Harold Burt-White. The collectors hunted everywhere, some even loitering outside hospitals watching for faces they had seen in Dr. Burt-White's waiting room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Women's Doctor | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Burt's Conversations Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

STRUTHERS BURT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

ENTERTAINING THE ISLANDERS-Struth-ers Burt-Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delectable Island | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...love with his niece Anita, who had come for a rest and to ponder a divorce. Several exciting events disturbed their tropical romance: David nearly drowned trying to rescue a man he despised; Anita's husband shot and blinded himself. But a hurricane made all clear: Author Burt rings down a rosy curtain on his lovers and their island. The tale is entertaining but seriously intended, carefully but (at times) garrulously written. In real life people never talk so wordily to their point; implicit in Author Burt's novels is the conviction that talk is important. A satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delectable Island | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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