Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high cost of general hospitals has already led to direct federal intervention through construction grants under the Hill-Burton Act of 1946. During its first 15 years the Act provided roughly one-quarter of all money spent in the United States on hospital construction, attempting to equalize bed-patient ratios through out the country. Its vast dimensions have stimulated the development of quality standards in all phases of hospital equipment and care...
...funds provided by the Hill-Burton Act have combined with insurance payments to change the fundamental relationship of doctors to hospital administrators. In the past, doctors regarded the hospital as their workshop and considered themselves autonomous from the hospital administrator, who often was a poorly qualified layman. The importance of the hospital today as a center for preventive medicine, research, and education has made the doctor's workshop much more of a public concern. And at some points the narrow interests of physicians may have to be subordinated to the needs of the community...
...note that Mr. Burton agreed to the story "on the condition that McPhee do all the interviewing of him as well as the writing." Perhaps the peculiar excellence of this article may be due to nothing more complicated than its being the product of one writer as against that of a committee of editors. May I suggest, tactlessly, that the "collective journalism" which TIME invented is sometimes inferior to the old-fashioned kind...
...worry about Burton. Unlike Cleopatra, the last scene will be tearfully happy. The end of the affair will come when the flick has been declared a smashing success; Richard will return to the legitimate theater; Liz will mark up another man; and 20th Century-Fox will gladly get its $40 million back...
...reference to your citation that "only four actors have played Prince Hamlet more than 100 times in a single production" (Irving, Tree, Gielgud and Burton), your reporter must have meant only in London...