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...Stumped for a Christmas gift? Give a loved one a chapel, as Marylou Whitney gave her husband Sonny, so he might worship without leaving their Saratoga Springs, N.Y., estate. Or do as Washington Contractor Samuel Gessford did when he built five Philadelphia row houses for his homesick wife to look at. Mansions, yachts, planes--they are all among the grand gifts in Only the Best by Stuart E. Jacobson (Abrams; 216 pages; $35). In this celebration of the sumptuous, it is the odd items that twinkle brightest: a money clip from Jack Benny to George Burns ("I want the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glowing Celebrations of Nature, History and Art 21 Volumes Make a Shelf of Season's Readings | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...Maroon's Mike Gessford triumphed by a fall over Bill Smith at 147, but Bob Kolodney added three more points to the Harvard totals with an exciting 5-4 win over Sam McClendon. Kolodney trailed by 3-0 at one point, and picked up the decisive points on a last period reverse and riding time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maroon Wrestlers Fell Crimson 23-8 | 2/8/1962 | See Source »

Doctors seldom mention the fact that an illness can be iatrogenic, i.e., caused by the doctor.* Yet many forms of sickness are created or made worse by the doctor's own emotional shortcomings. So says Psychiatrist Franklin Gessford Ebaugh of Denver in the Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dangerous Doctors | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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