Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able to control the heart, there are no well-documented cases in medical literature of an individual's stopping his own heart at will. What enables Mechanic Hansen to turn the trick is still a mystery. As a youth he suffered from rheumatic fever, once overheard the family doctor tell his parents: "Your boy will never live to be 20." Now the father of a 20-year-old son, Hansen lives with a heart condition and the boyhood-inspired fear that his heart may stop beating. To prevent this, he says that he hopes to "will" his heart...
...immigrant cabinetmaker, Ekblom went to work after grammar school, earned enough money to set up an auto repair shop at 16, became a self-taught expert in economics, accounting, corporate law and management. He turned his hand to selling cars and several other businesses, became a corporate doctor for sick companies, opened a Wall Street brokerage firm. Five years ago he bought 6% of the shares of Hupp at a time when the onetime automaker's gross was only $10 million a year and the loss $99-799-To Hupp's business of making automotive parts. Ekblom added...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...
...call freedom!" He left the monastery, joined the U.S. Navy, faked some college credentials and presented himself as a candidate for commission. When the security section started to investigate, Fred started to pack. He rejoined the Trappists, this time under the alias of Dr. Robert Linton French, a doctor of psychology whose search for truth had led him to abandon the world. But, as the brothers soon discovered, big, beefy Dr. French was not ready to abandon all of the world. He was caught "talking constantly," revealed gobbling grapes from the monastery's vines in defiance of the dietary...
...Little, former Columbia football coach Doctor of Humanics...