Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished service as a foreign correspondent. His integrationist career has its roots in his family life. In 1916, before he was born, his grandmother was arrested for picketing the white-supremacy movie "Birth of a Nation" when it was shown in Boston, where Worthy's late father, a doctor from a small Georgia town, had moved. Worthy graduated from Boston Latin School and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and in 1951 studied for a year in the field of adult education at the University of Oslo. Between Bates and Oslo, Worthy acted as a public relations assistant to A. Philip...
...purely medical subject," from Nazi ideas of selective breeding: "It rests definitely on the principle of voluntariness. Genetic-hygiene measures are taken exclusively at the desire of the persons concerned. Experience shows that patients, after having been informed on the significance of the hereditary taint, nearly always follow their doctor's advice." He does not explain how a mentally defective patient can understand the medical and social considerations involved, or how "voluntariness" can be achieved...
...have the foreign woman among them: a nomad tribesman told of seeing a white-faced woman riding on muleback. The governor of remote Iranshahr reportedly got a message from Dadshah himself, saying Mrs. Carroll was "alive and well'' and offering to free her if granted amnesty. A doctor and nurse, sent by the U.S. embassy in Teheran, hurried to the spot. This week, in a desert gully only two miles from the site of the original ambush, searchers found the body of pretty Anita Carroll, shot to death...
...thing the curious doctor was busy disentangling and studying last week looked like an endless skein of white rubber band. Actually, he explained happily, it was 100 ft. of rare tapeworm which he found in the intestine of a whale captured off Catalina Island. Although his specialization is the dwarf mouse tapeworm, a common human parasite, Dr. Donald Heyneman, 32, of the University of California at Los Angeles, finds all tapeworms fascinating. He hates to pass up a chance to find a new species, for the surface of tape-wormology has hardly been scratched...
Died. Murray W. Garsson, 67, sometime millionaire munitions maker and financier, who was convicted in 1947 in a bribery and conspiracy scandal involving Government war contracts, served 19 months in prison (1949-51), and ended his days homeless, borrowing small sums from his doctor for barbiturates; of a brain hemorrhage; in New York City. At war's end Garsson and his brother Henry, a consulting engineer, pasted together a paper empire (once valued at $78 million) of contracts for shells, mortars and aircraft parts, worked with lavish expense accounts through the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Kentucky...