Word: directors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guardian of the standards of U.S. surgery-and, incidentally, of the prerogatives of surgeons-made a shocking charge last week. Said Dr. Paul R. Hawley, director of the American College of Surgeons: "It is reliably estimated that today one-half of the surgical operations in the U.S. are performed by doctors who are untrained or inadequately trained to undertake surgery." One of "the most distinguished surgeons in the world" (whom he would not identify) had told him, said Dr. Hawley, that at least half his current practice "consists of attempts to correct the bad results of surgery ... by doctors inadequately...
Soma is also the Greek word for body. Last week, in a Manhattan skyscraper, Dr. Frank Berger, research director of New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, announced that his firm was beginning to market a new wonder drug-comparable, he hoped, in its effects on the body, to his earlier discovery, meprobamate (Miltown, Equanil), in its effects on the mind. The new tablet is a powerful muscle relaxant with some unusual painkilling qualities. Tried on more than 1,400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints-charley...
...Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), strongly seconded by Scriptwriter James R. Webb and Producer Sy Bartlett, seems determined to proclaim the dignity of the individual at the moment, in the heat of battle, when it seems to matter least. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg, Milestone declines to insult the dead with his approval. Like Analyst Marshall, he is satisfied to report simply and brutally: "The American character continues to meet the test of great events...
...Diary of Anne Frank. A massive, enthralling masterpiece lovingly mounted by Producer-Director George Stevens...
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on the miserable yet hopeful condition of a poverty-stricken Indian family...