Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doctor in the House is a movie about the lives and (jolly good) times of four medical students. Offhand I couldn't think of a more depressing subject, but once at the Exeter I laughed myself silly along with a good fifty percent of the audience. Since, However, about one-half of the audience were medical students known to me personally, I cannot vouch for the layman's reaction, for the film contains a remarkable amount of professional humor, scrutable only to those in the trade. Yet non-medical friends assure me they were much amused, so I guess...
Sweden's scholarly King Gustaf VI Adolph, 72, flew to Britain for a week's prowling in museums and art galleries, wound up his stay by picking up an honor ary Doctor of Letters degree at Oxford University for his pioneering spadework as an archaeologist...
...Official figures on the amount of vaccine released had always been misleading by 10%, because the makers put almost 10 cc. in each vial labeled 9 cc., to make up for the few drops lost every time a doctor changes needles...
...kibitzers of greatness who flocked to him. The hangers-on are still fighting, figuratively, over his body. Some stick to the story that Thomas died of a cerebral injury caused by a fall at a drinking party. Another group hints that Thomas was fatally dosed with morphine by a doctor whom a rival clique had summoned to treat the poet's alcoholic miseries. Dame Edith Sitwell, rising disdainfully over such partisan bickering, has said that Thomas died of an infection caught when he scratched an eyeball on a rose thorn...
Towards evening his doctor came and gave him a sedative, and left. The last words his visitor remembers were those of any man who is ill, questions like: "What time is it?" Around midnight Thomas suddenly went into coma. An ambulance rushed him to nearby St. Vincent's Hospital. During the next few days distraught poets, painters, sculptors and assorted hangers-on crowded into the hospital lobby, sometimes 40 deep. Thomas' wife Caitlin flew in from London, proved so distraught herself that she had to be put temporarily into a hospital at Astoria, L.I. That is where...