Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen by the American Medical Association (see above) to receive its Distinguished Service Award for 1950 was dignified, white-haired Dr. Evarts Ambrose Graham, often called the dean of U.S. surgery. The award was just one more laurel in his laurel-heavy career...
...Louis' Dr. Graham is still active as surgeon in chief at Barnes Hospital and the St. Louis Children's Hospital, and professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. He is probably best known for the first successful removal of an entire lung, in 1933. The patient, a fellow doctor, is still active. Other notable Graham feats...
Though responsible for some major developments in the technique of modern surgery, Dr. Graham ironically believes that his science has passed its peak and is now on the downgrade. His reasoning: such drugs as penicillin and ACTH will some day make most operations unnecessary. Eventually, says Dr. Graham, a surgeon's work will be limited to corrections of 1) malformations at birth and 2) injuries from accidents...
...Southern colleges and interstate railroad dining cars. The dust those decisions stirred up could be measured by their effect in North Carolina, the most progressive of Southern states. "If you want your wife or daughter eating at the same table with Negroes," warned a newspaper ad, "vote for Graham." Graham, onetime president of the University of North Carolina, tried his quiet best to point out that, though he had been a member of Harry Truman's Civil Rights Committee, he himself was opposed to the compulsory clauses of FEPC...
...Third Man. Melodramatic skulduggery in postwar Vienna, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME...