Word: doctorates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lancer named George Crosley, he had an extremely tough time of it. A search of the Library of Congress' extensive catalogues showed that one G. Crosley had had a book, of poems published in 1905 (when Chambers was four years old) and one G. E. Crosley, a medical doctor, had written a pamphlet on ultraviolet light in 1936. There was no record of a "George Crosley" having broken into print any time, anywhere during Chambers' lifetime...
American Vegetarian: for President, Dr. John Maxwell, 84, a Chicago doctor of naturopathy; for Vice President, Symon Gould, 52, Manhattan bibliophile and director of the American Library Service. The party advocates extermination of cattle and conversion of their grazing lands to food production...
...When her doctor ordered her to rest from farm work because of her neuritis and arthritis, Grandma turned to painting, "to keep busy and out of mischief." A Manhattan art collector saw her work on display in a local drugstore, and the next year she had her first and fabulously successful New York show...
...teach the high art of the theater here," says he. "But there's plenty of time to teach the students Shaw and Shakespeare in school. This is show business, pure and simple, and from the bottom up." And he thought that he knew how to finish his doctor's thesis...
Died. Dr. George Elliott MacKinnon, 65, bluff, beloved country doctor, who won fame when hundreds of his former patients turned out to celebrate "Doc MacKinnon" day (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945); after long illness; in Prentice, Wis. In 30 years he delivered 3,000 babies, wore out 17 cars, a sleigh, a buggy, a snowmobile...