Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard time realizing that "intelligence is impotent to cope with the brute of reality." The reality in this version of the oft-revised play was the revolt of fellow Hungarians. Until his final hour, the pacifist-minded doctor could see little purpose in getting involved, though it was violence to achieve freedom. As the hero's son, Bradford Dillman, 26, was tender and affecting, but in summing up his parents he also summed up what was wrong with the whole show: "They are wonderful people, but they are unreal...
Michael A. Gavrilov, professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences at the Academy of Sciences of Moscow, U.S.S.R., will deliver an address at the first meeting on April 2, on the "Investigation of Switching Theory in the Soviet Union." Gavrilov, Aiken said, is the author of one of the three basic books in the field...
...unidentified doctor in your picture is William Maxwell Hitzig of New York City. Dr. Hitzig has numbered many distinguished people among his patients. He was active in the pilgrimage of the 25 "Hiroshima Maidens" to Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment. [TIME...
...after his wife found the murder victim's purse in the Abbott cellar-was led into the prison gas chamber, still quietly insisting on his innocence. After a minute, Warden Harley O. Teets shook hands with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever, and 16 pellets of sodium cyanide dropped into a crock...
...army colonel who was also a distinguished psychiatrist. They questioned him not because they doubted his story (which they did not for long) but because of what he had to tell. Rumania, Czar Nicholas II once said, is not a nationality but a profession. To judge by the doctor's story, being a Rumanian Communist leader today is getting close to being the oldest of professions...