Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really needs, such ditties as "Little Pal" and an old one, "Back in Your Own Back Yard." The rest of the numbers will need a lot of plugging to make you remember them. Best shot: Marion Nixon telling Jolson what the manager proposed to her. Silliest shot: a doctor refusing to operate on Little Pal unless Miss Nixon raises $5,000. Silliest song-line (to the convicts): "Violets from their seeds push their way up through the weeds...
...Scotch doctor and a U. S. mother, he lived as a boy in Manhattan, attended public schools, shone in elocution rather than drawing. At 15 he entered art school as an excuse to be lazy, which he was, until he watched a fellow student draw classical ornament. Then he felt the fascination which determined all his later work. Soon he was designing alphabets, typography, title pages, serving as apprentice to a profane, drunken, expert pressman in a tiny Manhattan printing shop...
...John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, who directs excavations in Mexico and the Southwest, had asked Col. Lindbergh to make the pictures at Pecos near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter...
Endow as he will, the present Mr. Mackay will never be able to give back to Nevada the color of its oldtime mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime...
...these 125 Negro graduates are to get their hospital experience is a problem which the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges last week called to the profession's attention by its reports of the Association's last meeting. A doctor must spend one or more years at a hospital before he can be reckoned reliable for general practice. But there are only seven good Negro hospitals in the country and they can accommodate only 50 internes yearly. Practically none of the rest can get posts in general hospitals. So they must get work in dubious private...