Word: doc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving at Harvard in 1920 as a Freshman, he immediately joined the Glee Club, which had just become a major College organization under Professor "Doc" Davison. After a few weeks, he flunked his quartet trials, then as now the deciding factor in Glee Club membership; so he decided he would be an accompanist with the club. Woody delights in telling how Davison suggested that he "go play the drums in the band." Nevertheless, he must have made a moderately good accompanist, for when he graduated in 1924 he became conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society and assistant conductor...
...Department didn't want Doc Blanchard & Glenn Davis to be selfish about their pro football (TIME, Feb. 10). Nevertheless, it would be all right for Messrs. Inside & Outside to make a movie on summer leave, the Department announced, and added the wistful hint that sometime soon another film could be shot on West Point's handsome campus...
...little red tape on the way, the War Department turned it down. Said War Secretary Patterson: ". . . any other decision would be inimical to the best interests of the service . . . officers are now being sent on foreign service where there is a shortage of second lieutenants." Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard would have to go on just being soldiers, like everyone else at West Point...
...physician has lost the 'feel' of the patient's home. The patient, in turn, has been separated from his 'Doc' by receptionists, internes, residents, admitting physicians, house-officers, ward assistants, dispensary workers, specialists, subspecialists, nurses, social service workers, dietitians, etc. . . . Overall knowledge and responsibility for the human life are the province of no one practitioner...
Bill Jackson threw the 16 pound shot 47 feet 4 inches, his best effort this season, finishing five inches behind IC4A winner, Doc Blanchard. Pete Garland and Gene Harrigan tied for second in the high-jump at five feet eleven inches, and Frank Gurley, eclipsing his personal record, ran second to Army's Heptagonal cross country king, Fred Knauss in the mile...