Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million housewives tuned in to Ma Perkins this week, there was little doubt that bighearted Ma would help caddish Jack. For listeners know Ma better than they know Nora Drake, Our Gal Sunday, Young Doctor Malone, Mary Noble and eleven other serial sobbers. Ma, like Ivory soap, has been floating around longer than any of them.* Last week, saintly, sorghum-sweet Ma Perkins celebrated her 25th year on the air as the grey, bespectacled widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than...
...there until the family was forced to return to Japan by the Chinese civil war. Toshiko prepared for medical school, but when she got a job playing with a dance band at the U.S. Army officers' club, she decided she wanted to be a pianist instead of a doctor. Over family objections at first, she played in nightclubs and coffeehouses, later appeared twice as a guest with the Tokyo Philharmonic. On the strength of a recording she made, Toshiko managed to get a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music in Boston. She now spends her winters studying piano...
...Shrine. "It was while I was in a sort of coma," says Roman Catholic de Borse. "that I kept hearing ' the word 'Lourdes.' I tried to tell one doctor, but he couldn't understand me. Next morning I finally got it over to another doctor. At first they opposed me at every turn, and the airline companies weren't any better-they were afraid I'd die on the plane. And I had no money. But then there was another kind of miracle: a woman stopped my priest, Father Vaughan, in the street...
...hoping for cures. Most of these are examined before entering the water by a Bureau of Scientific Studies, which checks the medical history of the case and transmits a dossier to the Medical Bureau. If a patient later declares himself helped or cured, he is immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental and nervous ailments and all cases of paralysis, unless definitely established as organic in origin. Fewer than ten of some...
...armed forces (which will do their own testing, thus hold up distribution for a while), put up the other half immediately for top-priority civilian use. Lederle was pricing its vaccine at about $6.60 for a vial containing ten shots; so the price to patients should be $1 plus doctor...