Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Isobel-Ann Butterfield, 34, U.S.-born, Radcliffe-educated wife of a London physician, was angry when she read modern interpretations of Joan's career that branded her insane. She began digging the evidence out of the archives, soon called in her husband John, 38, professor of experimental medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, to help her with the technical aspects. He eventually became as interested as she was, wound up doing a detective-style postmortem. In History Today, the Butterfields spin their evidence into a tight...
What other evidence is there that Joan had bovine TB? One obvious item, Dr. Butterfield noted, was that she did not menstruate. Another was that when she was ill in prison at Rouen she appeared to have a kidney infection. And if she had something wrong with her temporal lobe, it was most likely a tuberculoma (a "firm, cheeselike abscess"), because when she jumped from the tower of Beaurevoir (variously estimated as 40 to 70 ft. high) she suffered no hemorrhage. Finally, Joan's conscientious executioner complained that even in his hottest fire her entrails would not burn...
Things began on Friday afternoon, when a friend in Harvard's administrative hierarchy slipped him the word that he didn't get into Eliot House. For Mansley--the Montebank clan's silver-spoon-fed youngest generation (St. Mark's and BUtterfield 8)--it was a deliberate slur on his urbanity. Shaken and embittered and haunted by the persistent spectre of anachronism, Mansley did something a Montebank would never do; he went to the ISA Fair...
Those receiving grants for independent research are Eric G. Ball, professor of Biological Chemistry; Lyman H. Butterfield '30, lecturer on History; Edward H. Chamberlin, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy; David Gitlin, assistant professor of Pediatrics; James M. Henderson, assistant professor of Economics; and Georg H.B. Luck, instructor in Classics...
...Clinton Elliott. Like the camera-work, it is leisurely, following the pace of the creatures. Some themes, like the sea horse's, are really amusing. Though the commentary is occasionally too chatty, it is informative without being ostentatiously so. Thanks to the good taste and restraint of Producer Butterfield and his assistants Secrets of the Reef is a fine movie about...