Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just inside the front door of Fuld Hall at the Institute of Advanced Study the switchboard was humming busily. "Professor Street from Harvard," the operator said. "He wants to talk to Doctor Yang...
...however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins. Some 40 years ago in the bush of Mkalama District, the private stable of lionmen trained and kept by one ambitious "sorcerer" (a practitioner of black magic as opposed to a witch doctor, who deals in white magic) committed an estimated 200 murders in a single three-month period...
Roll Back the Lid. It was 10 a.m. when Tomiko took her place in the busy waiting room. Within 15 minutes she was explaining to a doctor that she would like a double eyelid operation. Examination showed no reason why the girl should not have the operation (technically, blepha-roplasty). A nurse rubbed a local anesthetic ointment onto her eyelids. By 10:45 she was in the operating room...
...Dorothy and Michael Blankfort) is a child of the same French novel-The Woman Who Was No More -as the film Diabolique. The two are by no means twins, however. In the stage chiller, when Fernand Ravinel's wife refuses to dissolve their unhappy marriage through divorce, his doctor-mistress Monique suggests dissolving it through murder. As the efficient Monique drowns the wife in a bathtub and then makes her appear to drown in a stream-a Lady Macbeth superintending an Ophelia's fale -a scared Fernand quivers like jelly and wobbles like a tenpin. And then, when...
...Last Bridge. Europe's high-powered Maria Schell, as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept...