Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...
While the choir's basses sounded a bit muddy in the Brahms, one could have no complaints about the Mozart. The Litaniae began with the most cheerful imaginable Kyrie eleison and soloists Melanic Adams and Judith Press, who, it is good to note, have moved up successfully from Gilbert and Sullivan to God. The truly fine singing of the evening was done by Florence Staplin, soprano; her certainty of intonation, breath control, phrasing, and tone quality should serve as a model for her fellow soloists...
...soon as the operation was finished, Mayo-trained Dr. Gilbert phoned Dr. Richard Wilson of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a pioneer transplant center.* With Wilson's help, a supply of Imuran, an anti-rejection drug, was flown to Guayaquil. Luna was given a dose of X rays to further halt the process by which the human body normally rejects foreign organisms, whatever their origin...
...week after the operation, Wilson and his Boston colleague, Dr. Robert Goldwyn, flew down to look at Luna. They found that Gilbert had done his work well. "The hand is beautifully positioned," said Goldwyn. The blood flow was good, and while the skin appeared blistered there was no sign of the feared rejection process. Says Wilson: "What the whole fate of the hand will be, I don't think either of us can say at the moment. But Dr. Gilbert has made an excellent start...
INSURANCE companies generally tap salesmen, lawyers or investment specialists to become their presidents. Gilbert W. Fitzhugh is one of the few actuaries heading a large firm, but his happens to be the biggest: the venerable, 96-year-old Metropolitan Life. Last week President Fitzhugh announced a 1963 premium income of $2.8 billion and $7.5 billion worth of new insurance issued, which keeps Metropolitan well ahead of runner-up Prudential. The Metropolitan's insurance in force ($106.5 billion) covers 44.5 million people. One life-insurance policyholder (for $500,000) is Fitzhugh, 54, who by his own tables enjoys a life...