Word: cameron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corroding Drop. When war came, Elizabeth Bowen was 40, a homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell...
...James D. Cameron, Jr. '46, chairman of last fall's drive which netted $23,000, outlined a report he has written suggesting possible means of improving the "Service Fund Drive." These include changing the name of the drive, running a campaign each term, and not permitting a contributor to distribute his gift to the charity he wishes...
...Cameron disapproved of the latter two suggestions, but the Council took no final action...
Command Decision largely ignores the men who handled the planes, although most of the film's emotional sock is in the bit parts of the men who flew missions, well played by John Hodiak, Cameron Mitchell, Marshall Thompson and Michael Steele. Like the play and the book before it, the movie makes out a sympathetic case for the desk-bound generals and echoes Novelist-War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway's observation that generals are good people...
...best medical thinking in this country at the present time." In the past six months, he said, X rays of the stomachs of 3,000 patients in Johns Hopkins' dispensary clinic turned up cancers in four people who had no symptoms whatever. Said Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often" it is too late for an operation. Dr. Cameron would like to see still more mass examinations; chest X rays for everyone over 45, taken once or twice a year, he said...