Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each morning around 9:30, Roy Allison Roberts, his teeth clenching one of the dozen Corona-Coronas he smokes daily in defiance of his age (72) and his doctor (who allows him six), climbs out of his car before one of the homeliest buildings in Kansas City, Mo. The building quarters the Kansas City Star and its companion paper, the morning Times, and Roy Roberts is the boss. Neither he nor the building looks the part-nor, for that matter, does the Star look much like the usual daily newspaper. Roberts is rumpled and jowly, the very image...
Subtitled "A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health," the book has astonished booksellers by creeping to the upper level of bestseller lists and staying there for months-despite the fact that, when it appeared in 1958, it attracted no more critical attention than its nonsensical content of pseudo medicine and pseudo science deserved. Probably least surprised by Folk Medicine's success was 64-year-old Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison (TIME cover, May 24, 1954), a disciple of Dr. Jarvis' Honegar cult, who persuaded him to write the book and persuaded Holt to publish...
Hector obediently bided his time, called almost every evening through the years at the McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power...
...Conn's technique is conventional: he gets the patient to look at a spot on the wall and concentrate upon a pleasant scene of his own choosing. As his hypnotic state deepens under the doctor's suggestions, pain subsides-provided he is not one of those patients who have a neurotic need for pain-and this relief may last several hours or longer. Eventually, the patient can be taught to hypnotize himself whenever pain becomes unusually severe. The method relieves anxiety as well as pain, and has enabled several Johns Hopkins patients to get along with reduced doses...
...TRIAL OF DOCTOR ADAMS, by Sybilla Bedford. A retelling of the headline-famed case of England's Dr. John Bodkin Adams, acquitted of committing murder by drugs, this book shows what a fine novelist (The Legacy) can take back from a courtroom. Author Bedford raises the sensational to the dramatic. Her greatest triumph: sustaining suspense when all the time the reader knows the outcome...