Word: guida
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Died. Dr. Guido Guida, 71, Sicilian ear-nose-and-throat specialist who in 1935 founded the International Radio Medical Center (CIRM) in Rome, which provides assistance for ships at sea that lack doctors, has radioed remedies and even emergency surgical instructions for some 40,000 ailing seamen; of cancer; in Rome...
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A mime, Salvatore Guida, plays several parts in telling the story of St. Francis of Assisi...
...ANTHONY GUIDA '63 WILLIAM WALDERT '63 GEORGE THEOLOGUS '63 Holy Cross College Worcester, Mass...
Hands of God. A Sicilian ear-nose-throat specialist named Guido Guida (pronounced Gweeda) got the idea for CIRM in 1935 when he met a sick-looking sailor friend in his native port of Trapani. "I came down with bronchopneumonia en route from New York to Genoa," he explained. "Who cured you?" Guida asked...
...myself in the hands of God." With demoniac energy Dr. Guida began organizing, soon got the Italian government to agree to handle radio messages between CIRM and Italian ships at sea and tiny island outposts in the Mediterranean. The service, provided then as now by volunteer doctors, expanded from there. Today 60% of CIRM's "patients" are aboard non-Italian ships and 80% are outside the Mediterranean. Despite a wartime shutdown CIRM has handled 52,500 messages, treated more than 7,500 cases aboard hundreds of ships of 22 nationalities.* "It would cost a small fortune to be treated...