Word: drinker
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Demand for graduates of Public health schools was pointed out today by Cecil K. Drinker, Dean of the School of Public Health. "It has been estimated", said Dean Drinker, "that the United States require about 250 health school graduates a year. In the entire country there are two schools, Harvard and Johns Hopkins, capable of producing about 150 a year as a total. All graduates who have obtained degrees have positions and positions were never lacking even during the depression." The School was established as an experiment in 1922 and was planned on a small basis the report explained...
...BELOVED FRIEND"-Catherine Drinker Bowen & Barbara von Meek-Random House ($3). Any musician runs the risk of being thought queer, but Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how queer he actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination...
...team. In 1912, at the age of 25, he was a track star running for the United States the Olympiad in Stockholm. He was then three years out of the University Illinois where he had earned several "I's" in track and joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Not a champion drinker, Brundage acquitted himself creditably Stockholm. Soon after, he took up handball, and became one of the country's outstanding singles players while his own construction company put up some Chicago's flashiest apartment and office buildings...
...good fortune this year in picking up Le Linge, a splendid Manet, and two very important Cezannes, The Drinker and The Woodchopper which had been held in a private collection in Switzerland, and I have four Matisse interiors, new ones. It's an amazing thing about Matisse. He's getting on in years, you know, and everyone thought he had shot his bolt in art. He's 67 or 68 years old and he hadn't shown anything in two years. But this year he had a show in Paris that would knock your...
...menopause brought to a doubly sure conclusion her attempts to produce an acceptable heir to carry on the Stuart succession. At the mere sight of George she fell pregnant; but of all these children only six lived long enough to be given names." Queen Anne was a heavy drinker. Her many pregnancies caused varicose veins in her legs. One vein ulcerated, producing toxaemia and death...