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...Nielsen has "Doc" Reichard taking the place of Dr. I.Q. Just say, "I have a woman in the balcony, Doctor," and watch the expression on his face. Our humble apology to Mr. A. L. Samman for letting the boys down by not divulging their inner lives in the HSN of late...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: *The Lucky Bag* | 3/27/1945 | See Source »

...addition, his other leg was mangled, probably beyond saving, and his arms and hands had been badly torn and burned black. In a few-minutes he stopped groaning, and when the doctor sought to turn his arm gently, the wounded man said: "Go ahead and turn her over, Doc. I'm all right now." Dr. Silvis was just finishing when I returned. He thought his dirty-faced private had a pretty fair chance. Dr. Silvis took off his white gown, and put his khaki shirt on, and when we started through the blackout flaps, I noticed that the concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Sinclair Lewis gave the world its classic picture of the American conformist. Whether he was known as Babbitt, Doc Kennicott, Joe Doakes or the great American boob, this monster was terrible, and to escape him (or his wife) the intellectuals of the 1920s fled from Main Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street Revisited | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Urged on by Julie, Cancy grew bolder. When Catfoot Grimes and an Italian storekeeper peddled their liquor to the Negroes, Cancy looked the other way -after pocketing a fat cut. When Doc Stanley found out, Cancy's pals ran him out of town. But Julie, greed and liquor got the better of Cancy in the end. Slowly, shrewdly, Editor Mabry and his son piled up the evidence against Cancy, worked painstakingly to win over one respectable citizen after another. Then they struck-in an editorial that staggered Carvell City and brings the story to a bloody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Rivers | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Saturnalia. Mack's party for Doc was premature. To finance it the boys collected 500 frogs (for which Doc would pay 5? apiece), then traded the frogs to Lee Chong for liquor which they drank while waiting for Doc to show up. When he finally arrived, his house was a shambles. But no Steinbeck story of Monterey could end on so grim a note. All Cannery Row cooperated to make up for the destruction by giving the music-loving old scientist a party they could enjoy, and the book ends with the sound of revelry by night, a saturnalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bowery of Monterey | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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