Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fellow Alumnus. Soon, Fred Snite's comings and goings in his private mobile hospital (a converted bus) and by private railroad car between Chicago and Florida became commonplace. Then, with his devout Roman Catholic family and an entourage of twelve (a doctor, five nurses, a physiotherapist, two orderlies, two mechanics and a chauffeur), he made the pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. From the Vatican came the Pope's personal blessing. Fred Snite saluted the Pope "as an honorary fellow alumnus of the University of Notre Dame," insisted: "I ask no miracle ... I came here...
...first act, Dr. Nicholas Marsh, a dying neurologist played by Vincent Price, is approached by Susan Gillespie, played by Dana Wynter. Black-Eyed Susan, as she is later called, has a strange request: in three years her husband has failed to present her with a child. She wants the doctor to act in loco parentis...
Much of the rest of the play is devoted to Miss Wynter's attempts to seduce the doctor. It is a chess-game second act which sees her carrying the attack, leading with her queenly figure, lounging on the couch, or gently caressing his knee while he tries, unsuccessfully to ward off her advances. Vincent Price, of course, is merely a pawn, and he realizes it. His defeat is inevitable. In a stunning move the pawn is rooked, and the two disappear into a bedroom for what should logically be the end of the game...
...addressing themselves to this problem, the Medical Schools of Harvard and Yale do seem to agree that the scientific content of a doctor's training must crowd his education out of the picture. "The Medical School must not be a trade school," Dean Berry has said, for "medical education is good only when it is good education...
...shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth, black belly. For 20 minutes, horse and horse doctor would meditate in silent communion. "I don't go in much for talking to horses," said Brook. What he does, he explained, is "change nervous impulses," rejigger them until his patient's mind works to full capacity...