Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...energetic, wiry young physician just out of medical school, Rolla Eugene Dyer started in to practice in Marlin, Texas. His career as family doctor lasted six weeks. "I went in with an old physician who turned over all his night work and out-of-town calls to me," he explains, "and I lost 18 pounds in six weeks. I decided not to practice medicine...
...that decision, back in 1915, did not mean that Dr. Dyer was giving up medicine. Soon he went to work for the U.S. Public Health Service. Last week, nearing 64 and retirement, ruddy, white-pompa-doured Rolla Dyer looked back on a career which mirrored the growth of PHS from a sort of emergency field service to a vast organization with elaborate research facilities in its National Institutes of Health. And the lushest, most fruitful growth of the Institutes (to a $50-million-a-year enterprise) had been in the last eight years under Dr. Dyer's directorship...
...GALLANT HOOD (383 pp.) - John P. Dyer-Bobbs-Merrill...
...Grand Manner. What happened next, as Biographer Dyer records it in his careful, compassionate reconstruction of Hood's life, was the beginning of a legend. "Down into the creek ravine wallowed [Hood's brigade] under the deadly spittle of the belching artillery on the hill. Up on the other side they came and with a terrific shout gave the first line the bayonet. It fell back on the second line and it broke. As the blue mass retreated up the hill the fire of the Texans was poured into it with terrible effect." Hood had broken through...
Five Methodist missionaries have been reported captured in the Korean war: the Rev. A. Kris Jensen of New Cumberland, Pa.; the Rev. Larry Zellers of Weatherford, Texas; Miss Bertha Smith of Marshall, Mo.; Miss Nell Dyer of Fort Smith, Ark.; Miss Helen Rosser of Cordele, Ga. Together with Dr. Ernest Kisch of Austria, a Jew recently baptized a Methodist and doing special work for his church in Korea, the five were cut off by North Korean troops in the city of Kaesong...