Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some now stuffed shirts, some leading Communists); he writes of his travels, praises the English, meditates on music, relates an encounter with a big-shot Nazi in Greece. But the spotlight is on those amateur philosophers whom he numbers among the "Society of Itinerant Humanists." One was a French doctor who came to treat Edman's indigestion, launched instead into a discourse on Platonic philosophy. Another is his maid Maria, one of the best philosophers who ever kept a bachelor's apartment in order, and Edman's tribute is probably one of the sweetest portraits...
Last week, with publication of Mrs. Gasparotti's prizewinner, Young Doctor Galahad (Dodd, Mead, $2.50), readers could admire not only her industry, but a good piece of popular fiction as well. The story of an idealistic young doctor in a small-town hospital-not Moberly, protests Author Seifert, although "I cannot get people to believe it"-Young Doctor Galahad is better than the usual run of popular fiction because of the author's earnestness...
...near their promising, 15-year-old son Oleg. A freshman last year at the Quaker Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, young Oleg matriculated this fall in the University of Moscow. When Father Troyanovsky sailed for Europe three months ago he confided that had Son Oleg chosen to become a doctor or an engineer he could have continued his U. S. education. When he decided to become a writer, however, Soviet schooling was prescribed...
...HORSE AND BUGGY DOCTOR- Arthur E. Hertzler-Harper...
...corruption in Paris, complete with blackmailers, international financiers and gamblers, it is less convincing than the early chapters laid in a little town near Marseille. There the mayor's 16-year-old son is having an affair with the wife of the tax collector, as is the local doctor; the dealer in funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local chocolate factory. Although a sombre political note runs through...