Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic tradition of kids, Martin wanted to be a fireman. Then, hoping to treat man's physical ills, he planned to become a doctor. Becoming more deeply engrossed in the problems of his race, he turned his hopes to the law because "I could see the part I could play in breaking down the legal barriers to Negroes." At Morehouse, he came to final resolution. "I had been brought up in the church and knew about religion," says King, "but I wondered whether it could serve as a vehicle to modern thinking. I wondered whether religion, with its emotionalism...
...doctor asked...
...White seemed to get better and went home. Then she had a relapse. In Dr. Thigpen's office she went into a two-minute trance. As her eyes opened, she stared blankly around the room. She fixed them on the doctor. Then, "with an unknown but curiously impressive voice and with immeasurable poise." she asked: "Who are you?" This was Eve White's third personality, soon christened Jane...
...Gonzales is too much of a businessman and too good at his business to take his occasional beatings lightly. He fights for every point. (At Wellington last week, when a close line call went against him, he turned to the stands and asked: "Is there an eye doctor about?") Victories on the tour mean cash-as Pancho has learned the hard way. He signed for $80,000 to play against Kramer in the 1950 season, was beaten so roundly that the next year his salary dropped...
...morbidly sensitive to the sufferings of others. Although in his 20s he became famous as organist, philosopher, theologian, he never stopped wondering what he could do to ease the world's pain. At 30, he abandoned fame, plunged into medicine, determined to spend his life as a missionary doctor in French Equatorial Africa. "Man belongs to man," he wrote. "Man has claims on man . . . One who escapes misfortune should render thanks by doing something to relieve suffering...