Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constituents or shake an Arizona hand. Last week McFarland opened his senatorial campaign in Willcox. where 50,000 Arizonans were conveniently gathered for the Rex Allen Days-two days of homage to Willcox's most prominent son, the movie cowpoke and star of TV's Frontier Doctor. Stalking the vote, addressing every male under 80 as "young man," Ernie paced Haskell Avenue, patting juvenile heads, chucking infant chins, then climbed ably astride a Palomino for the Rex Allen parade...
Early Life. Born Feb. 11, 1906, son of a village doctor, amid the mountains and olive groves of northern Lebanon where, he says, "life is innocent and full...
...children may have no symptoms at all. Though the disease seems to be rare, it is being recognized more and more-but still only after death. When Barbara was six, her pediatrician found a slightly enlarged heart. It was not unusual, nor was the small heart murmur that another doctor found in Billy in infancy. Susan was also thought to have a minor heart enlargement, but all the children were healthy, energetic specimens. Their hearts seemed near normal, at least, and they suffered no undue strain or emotional upset. Their X rays and cardiograms were all "nonspecific...
...There are anecdotes of the ' stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch bellow back: "I won't be blistered...
Training was also being improved. 1889 saw the first spring practice. Two years later a crude and brutal machine called the tackling dummy came to Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made team doctor and began a custom of players' retiring from the field between halves for rubdowns and first...