Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long way from Mexico, Mo. to New York, N.Y., and the top spot at the Herald Tribune is one of the toughest. In accepting the responsibility, Mexico's White also gets the authority to go with it. Where Whitney had sought two men, one to be editor and another to be president, White was handed both hats. Moreover, he will name a managing editor and business manager of his own choosing. Says he: "My neck is out. I'm either going to hang or dance." If he dances, it could be a mighty merry jig, both...
...would prefer, Colonel Wayne informs her, the pleasure of her company during the rest of the raid. So off they all go, plodding along at a pace that is unhistoric as well as uncinematic, to the climactic engagement-in which Colonel Wayne is decisively defeated...
...mental diseases. When terrible-tempered Governor James Michael Curley fired him in 1936, U.S. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes hired him as head of St. Elizabeths, a federal hospital. Teaching at George Washington University, he concentrated on spreading psychiatry among general practitioners because "there will never be enough psychiatrists to go around." His sane humanism -he is a book collector, music lover, once served as moderator of the American Unitarian Association-stood him in good stead at St. Elizabeths, where he lives with his family. For 13 years he endured endless legal wrangling over his most celebrated patient, Poet Ezra Pound...
Njoroge's quest for his M.D. would make the arduous road of the average U.S. medical student look like roses all the way. Son of a Kikuyu Christian who ran a small general store, Njoroge wanted to go to a U.S. college. But Kenya bureaucrats refused him necessary papers, hoping to keep him within the empire for ideological safety. So Njoroge made it the long way around, via Pretoria (B.S. at the University of South Africa) and London, peddling cosmetics and doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study...
...Njoroge got the idea for his African hospital, sold it to Medico, a division of the International Rescue Committee, which persuaded U.S. drug manufacturers to donate $100,000 worth of medicines, other U.S. manufacturers to supply $40,000 worth of equipment and surgical instruments. A Stanford classmate agreed to go as resident physician-at $200 a month. By mail, Njoroge organized a committee in Kenya that persuaded tribesmen to donate land, materials and labor for the hospital. The hospital will be built in the village of Chania, 30 miles northeast of Nairobi, will be free for Africans, whose fellow tribesmen...