Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always liked Wyeth's work, cited Children's Doctor as his particular favorite among the American paintings on exhibition at Moscow. He found he liked Wyeth's gentle, almost courtly manners too, permitted him to spend five full days working at Gettysburg. During those five days the President posed whenever he had time to spare, from 15 minutes to an hour. At Wyeth's request Ike donned his favorite jacket, a straw-colored, nubby silk. He sat unsmiling and as if alone with his thoughts. Previous portraitists, working mostly from photographs, have tended to crystallize...
...touch for days at a time. Often Laos' creaky, eight-plane air force could not get supplies to isolated garrisons, and more than one slightly wounded trooper died at a monsoon-soaked outpost for the lack of a road or airstrip to get him out to a doctor; in all Laos there is not one helicopter. In Samneua-the province in greatest danger of Communist takeover, where an 800-square-mile area is now controlled by Communist rebels-a surrounded paratroop company could not be reinforced by troops waiting to jump in and help; they had no parachutes...
Better Than Father. Like most pioneers in psychoanalysis, Jones claims uncanny recollection of earliest childhood. He was only three, he says, when he decided to become a physician. This was when the village doctor delivered his younger sister: "It was plain to me that he was a very exalted person who could bring the results of my father's misdeeds to a happy issue. From that moment, since a doctor was superior even to a father, I resolved to become one." A precocious youth, he made it at 21, emulated his doctor-idol figure by delivering a thousand babies...
...really a good man with a perfectly normal voice, forced by poverty into becoming a "ridiculous vagabond, living a lie." Inevitably, the charlatans' show ends in disaster, but the magician gets his revenge: he plays dead and, in a sequence eerie as a Kafka nightmare, torments a doctor who wants to dissect him. And at film's end, after numbing humiliations, the troupe is invited to perform for Sweden's king...
...Tailor's Maid (Royal; Trans-Lux) presents Italy's suave Vittorio De Sica as a rich tailor who loves to wrap his charms around female customers. "A tailor," he suggestively tells a pretty matron, "is like a doctor, dear lady...