Word: dodds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week is Sister Kenny's fast-moving, stormy autobiography, And They Shall Walk (Dodd, Mead; $3), in which the Australian nurse describes her 30-year struggle to get her treatment for poliomyelitis accepted. On doctors' desks at the same time are two research reports claiming that Sister Kenny's understanding of poliomyelitis is all wrong. No one now denies that Sister Kenny is good with her hands (in Minneapolis, where formerly about 85% of polio sufferers were left with paralysis, the Kenny method now makes all but 20% as good as new), but her critics insist...
DOUBLE TRAGEDY-Freeman Wills Crofts- Dodd, Mead ($2). A run-with-the-hare and hunt-with-the-hounds affair in which a hard-up English business man murders his wife's rich uncle, and covers his tracks from everybody but the patient and methodical Inspector French, who provides a first-class exercise in clue chasing and deduction...
SHADOWS ON THE WALL - Mary Reisner - Dodd, Mead ($2). The accidental fall that killed ardently admired Lawyer Frost looked like a purposeful push after investigation by a district at torney with a weakness for sultry females. Several of the murderer's house guests are implicated, also an ex-gangster neighbor - who becomes the catalytic agent that settles a seething emotional brew. The first murder is self-solving; a second death is anybody's guess. Tantalizing, turbulent...
News from Oxford, reported by the Anglican Church Times: "Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, who last Thursday received the degree of D.D. from Oxford University, is recognized as an outstanding religious teacher. So great, indeed, is the influence which, along with Professor C. H. Dodd of Cambridge, he exercises over the younger generation of theologians, that a current Oxford witticism enjoins: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy Dodd with all thy heart, and thy Niebuhr as thyself...
Many thanks for the excellent article about Father Dodd of Hollywood (TIME, Aug. 2), but where, oh where, did you find that atrocious photograph, which makes him look like "an odd fish" indeed? Never have I seen a priest, whether Anglo-Catholic or Roman Catholic, arrayed in such a getup...