Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 92, hero of Verdun in World War I, and head of Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...
...Starved and cold-shouldered," roared Angell) rose to take their places among the finest in the U.S., and when the school of the fine arts won so many Prix de Rome that the prize got to be known as the Prix de Yale. Angell cut across department barriers to give undergraduates an integrated curriculum. Under him, Yale began its system of residential colleges, started its university press and the Yale Review...
...willing and able accompanist. He has already written a dozen songs (all unpublished as yet) which have such titles as I Want a Helicopter and Why Do You Make Me Wait? His music, plus basketballing and maintaining "gentleman's grades" in his studies, does not give him much time for girls. Says Tony: "I'm going to look over the field in the spring...
...Whipple advised his fellow surgeons to avoid temper tantrums and "excessive showmanship." Said he: "Too often the ability of a surgeon is compromised by his temper exposed in the operating room, and he becomes his own worst handicap . . . His prayer should be, 'Give me skill with humility, and prevent me from becoming a prima donna...
...acting is superb. Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller are a comedy team on a par with Coward and Lawrence, and give the Pygmalion Galatea story an hilarious slant the Greeks could never have envisioned...