Word: heale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skeptics. In Viola, Wis., Lester Heal smugly reported to police that burglars had smashed into his safe labeled "No money here," had gone away emptyhanded...
...Breckinridge reads with difficulty and wears dark glasses to guard her own eyes from glare. Twenty-six years ago she was stricken with glaucoma, an eye disease that often causes blindness. While waiting for her eyes to heal after an operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...
...otherwise chilly semidocumentary. Hasse Ekman, who helped write the screenplay, directed and played the lead, shrewdly explores the often depressing theme: the patients, feeling that they have been played a dirty trick, by fate, gradually transfer their resentments to the doctors and nurses who are trying to heal them...
...free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections: that... I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere...
There were some splinter groups-and some who still hoped to heal the breach. Oilman Joe Pew, once a real power but now a political has-been, privately favored Bob Taft. Philadelphia's ex-City Chairman Jay Cooke had a small handful of delegates lined up for Harold Stassen. National Committeewoman Mrs. Worthington Scranton was working feverishly for unity behind U.S. Senator Edward Martin-who would be the delegation's favorite-son choice on the first ballot...