Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit grade schools last week, doctor-nurse teams set up shop behind desks in classrooms and readied their needles. At the Clarence M. Burton School, kindergartners wound in a tearful line to the shot-room door, each moppet clutching his school record and a yellow permission slip signed by a parent. Two doctors worked at assembly-line pace-one shot every 20 seconds. At four health centers, preschool infants were getting shots, and adults could have them for the asking. Dr. Molner's goal: 80,000 shots (80% of the children in the worst disease area) before the holidays...
...Presbyterian doctor-missionary, Goheen grew up in India, got his first taste of U.S. education when he entered Lawrenceville as a junior in 1934. Two years later, dropping him off at Princeton, his parents told his freshman adviser: "We've got. to return to India. Please look after this boy." Little care was needed. Goheen made both the varsity soccer team and Phi Beta Kappa. After a year of graduate study, he carried the habit of success into the Army, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Ist Cavalry Division in the Pacific...
Manhattan Composer Henry Brant is flute-prone. When he spots a vintage model he has never seen before, his eyes glitter with excitement and he examines the old vented tube with the fervor of a doctor hunting a symptom. "Wow," he will say in wonderment. "Look at that plumbing!" Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade. One of Composer Brant's finest works is a fond flute dream called Angels and Devils, a concerto for flute and flute orchestra. Now it is on records, soloed by Frederick...
Looking like an uneasy fugitive from a Frans Hals painting, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany James B. Conant, 63, dolled himself up in traditional Renaissance plumage, then proudly accepted an honorary Doctor of Natural Science degree from the University of Hamburg. Harvard's former Prexy Conant, whose sheepskins could cover a large flock, now boasts more than 40 honorary diplomas...
...doctor had his life to live over again, would he choose medicine as his career? Medical Economics fired that question at physicians, and 90% answered...