Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the assembled thousands included many of the deftest-fingered scalpel wielders and gut tiers in the U.S., and such honored elder surgeons as New Orleans' Alton Ochsner and St. Louis' Evarts Graham, there was none among them who towered above his fellows as did Baltimore's William Stewart Halsted half a century ago, or Halsted's pupil, Harvey Gushing, a generation later. The reason lies not in a decline in the caliber of surgeons, but in a change in the nature of surgery itself...
...lived for the past 40 years, Britain's famed Satirist Sir Max Beerbohm ("the inimitable Max") quietly passed his 80th birthday. Among his gifts: a privately printed scarlet-bound book containing tributes from such younger men of letters as Robert Graves, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene...
...contemplative. Said the Right Rev. M. James Fox, Abbot of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky,* whose monks take a vow never to speak, "Silence does not lock the soul in a prison . . . Silence merely gives you a heart filled with Jesus." Countered Dom Aelred Graham, a Benedictine who writes and teaches, "It is possible to do more good and lose nothing of contemplation by creative and more active work for society...
Into the Clouds. On July 4, Yerupaja looked down from its eminence of 21,769 ft. upon the 13,400-ft. base camp of six young climbers who had never tackled anything so big in their lives. Jim Maxwell, George Bell, Austen Riggs and Graham Matthews had met at Harvard. The two others, Dave Harrah and Chuck Crush, were Stanford...
...riverside near Vicksburg, Miss, one morning last week, Evangelist Billy Graham stepped up to a platform, lifted his eyes to heaven, and blessed a 200-ft. converted LSM (Landing Ship, Medium) and its crew. This week the ship, known around Vicksburg as "The Ark of LeTourneau," will cast off and nose out into the muddy Mississippi. Its cargo consists of $500,000 worth of heavy earthmoving, lumbering and land-clearing machinery, food supplies for a year, 500 New Testaments and a dozen "technical missionaries." Its destination: Liberia...