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...Laragh himself to go into medicine. After Cornell University and Cornell University Medical College, he moved to Presbyterian Hospital for his internship. There he came under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Loeb, a great physician who co-edited what has since become one of medicine's standard texts: Cecil & Loeb's Textbook of Medicine. The association was a fortunate one for Laragh. "Loeb was a despot, but a benevolent one," Laragh recalls. "He was fair but demanding, and his standards were the highest." Loeb was also a first-rate teacher who did not believe in spoiling his pupils...
Friend and schoolmate of George Orwell and Cecil Beaton, Connolly came down from Oxford with ambitions of becoming a novelist or an epic poet. Instead he wrote mostly critical essays, which soon established him as a powerful influence among English intellectuals. In 1939 he founded the monthly magazine Horizon, which became a literary showcase, publishing the likes of T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and Andre Gide...
...Idaho, Cecil Andrus...
...Cecil W. Stoughton...
...Freshman Division, Scott Cecil (Greenough) won in a time of 10:13, Dan Pierce (Thayer South) took second place and Brad Behrman (Mower/Stoughton) placed third...