Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eighty-one, the kindly doctor, as energetic as ever, still cannot find time enough to devote to his music, philosophy, and theology; he must almost constantly tend his patients, working only for brief periods at his other manifold interests. With the close of the day at Lambarene, the film ends...
...Good Doctor. The astonished villagers soon learned why: Martin Godgart was an impostor. His real name is Ferdinand W. Demara Jr., and he is not just any everyday kind of impostor. At 35, he is a kid-gloved Walter Mitty, an audacious, unschooled but amazingly intelligent pretender who always wanted to be a Somebody, and succeeded in being a whole raft of Somebody Elses. Yet he apparently never bilked a penny from a soul...
...Cecil Hamann, studied law at night at Northeastern University in Boston for a year, then joined another Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
...Germany. Her story begins with the carnival of freedom that occurs when Waldheim is captured in 1945 by the advancing Russians. In those first hysterical days, the freed prisoners are as vindictive as a wolf pack. Captured guards are hurled to their death down a stairwell; a brutal prison doctor is beaten insensible and shot. Henriette comes face to face with a woman guard she has sworn to kill: "I stared fixedly at the woman, at those coarse features, and cruel mouth I had hated from the bottom of my soul . . . Yet now I found that, even...
After receiving in 1925 the first Doctor of Philosophy degree ever granted at Radcliffe, Mrs. Gaposchkin remained at the Observatory to do research and teach. She became Phillips Astronomer in 1938. Last year she received an honorary A.M. degree from the University. On becoming a Harvard "alumnus," Mrs. Gasopschkin reportedly commented, "Maybe I should join the Harvard Club...