Word: cullen
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...Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen has taught every student who ever graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School. Nearly as famous for his practical jokes as for his surgical exploits, Dr. Cullen has been known to list his occupation as "interior decorator," has upon occasion posed for anatomical illustrations in medical texts. Several years ago at ceremonies to install Dr. Roland Hill as president of the St. Louis Medical Society, a large box was presented to the guest of honor, after a long speech celebrating his accomplishments. Urged by his distinguished colleagues to open the box, Dr. Hill removed the lid, took...
Last week after 45 years of teaching, 70-year-old Tom Cullen gave his last lecture at the Hopkins. To celebrate his retirement, his students presented him with a large box. When he opened the box he was startled to find a 15-lb. abdominal tumor. In bewilderment he picked at the tumor, discovered, while the class roared with laughter, that it was no tumor but a cake, covered with reddish-brown icing, and surrounded with "areas of degeneration" made of jelly. Gravely and skillfully Dr. Cullen picked up a scalpel, performed an operation, gave every student a slice...
...recover from their doleful declines in the early 1930s, he was invited to resign as president of International Paper, but to remain president of International Paper & Power (top holding company for all the subsidiaries). Mr. Graustein resigned from both in a huff and went back to lawyering. Richard J. Cullen, who had been in the paper business since he was 22, got his jobs...
Touched with hypochondria, Mr. Cullen refers to bothersome unfinished business as a "stone in my belly." A stone in Mr. Cullen's belly since he became International's head man has been the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, requiring geographical integration of utility pyramids. Like many another utility magnate, Mr. Cullen tried to evade this "death sentence" without avail. SEC remained adamant and the stone in Mr. Cullen's belly still hurt. Last week...
Among this gang Mark Cullen was handicapped by his size and social position. He was a skinny, frail moppet, whose father was rural superintendent of schools. But he had plenty of nerve, and on Hallowe'en night (one of the funniest as well as the least printable episodes in the book), or on their petty thieving raids, Mark was as tough as the rest...