Word: foss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WILSON P. Foss Katonah...
Last week, 60 years after Edward Lear and his faithful old cat-traveling companion Foss died, Manhattan galleryites got a chance to judge Edward Lear the artist through his spontaneous sketches. "Oh, dear, dear, dear," Lear once wrote, "the more I see of nature, the more sure I am that one Edward Lear should never have attempted to represent her. Yet . . . I know there is a vein of poetry in me that ought to have come out." If anywhere it did come out, fresh & free, it was in the pale and delicate watercolors he jotted down in a few feverish...
...members of the Freshman "B" squad Don Foss and Reeves Sigourney, will dress with the "A" squad today as a result of the injury fostered general reshuffling of the squad...
...license to practice medicine in this country," said Dr. Foss, "entitles its holder ... irrespective of his training ... .to attempt any operation irrespective of its magnitude and technical difficulties. . . . The glamor of surgery, the superior position the young doctor believes he will attain . . . are so alluring that it is often difficult for the recent graduate to resist the temptation of plunging [unprepared] into surgery...
...patients, Dr. Foss warned, now face a new hazard: many of the 40,000 young medical officers demobilized at war's end have begun to practice surgery without proper training (because surgical posts in hospitals, where they might be trained, are scarce...