Word: docs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four horses piled up in the stretch at Belmont Park last June. That day, with one jockey hurt and two others stunned, he walked calmly back to the jockeys' room where an excited doctor exclaimed: "That was a pretty bad spill." Glisson, dirty and dusty, stared at the doc with cold, blue eyes and said matter-of-factly: "I've seen worse." At 18, he has the kind of unshakable coolness that makes him a standout among the hard-boiled little men he rides against...
...held her audience spellbound by the sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense, doc-like stare at the actor speaking, certain extravagant gestures about the face--to name a few. I shouldn't care to see a stage filled with Luise Rainers, all going at once; it would be overwhelming. But the one we have with us now is most welcome and, I repeat...
...Doc & Dible. This blossom boom has been planted and cultivated chiefly by a fast-growing company called Flowers of Hawaii. Founded by Hawaii's Territorial Senator William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...
Bald, stocky, 59-year-old Doc Hill had tried almost everything else on the island of Hawaii before Dible got him into flowers five years ago. Hill's first job, in 1913, was selling eyeglasses to Japanese plantation hands on Hawaii at $3 apiece. He did so well that he opened a jewelry store, later branched out to finance, real estate, autos (he has the General Motors franchise on Hawaii), movie theaters (he owns ten) and utilities (he is president and principal stockholder of Hilo Electric Light Co., Ltd.). When Hill's wife started shipping a few orchids...
Born. To Lieut. Felix Anthony ("Doc") Blanchard, 24, hefty "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, now a jet-plane pilot, and Josephine ("Jody") King Blanchard, 22, San Antonio socialite: their first child, a son; in Sumter, S.C. Name: Felix Anthony 3rd. Weight...