Word: heiman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Dr. Harry Heiman has practiced medicine in his native city of New Orleans. A wisp of a man, little more than five feet tall, he has delivered more than 2,000 babies. Last week Dr. Heiman was charged by the district attorney with "negligent homicide" as the result of the death of one of his patients from the complications of childbirth (maximum penalty: five years in prison). Court officials could remember no precedent in Louisiana and few elsewhere...
Agnes Serpas, 29, had already had five children (the fifth delivered by Dr. Heiman) without any trouble, explained her husband, Junk Collector Charles Serpas. She was a stocky woman of 5 ft. 2 in. and 140 Ibs., and "she used to be up & around doing a big washing three days after she had a baby," he said. Last month, nearing the end of her sixth pregnancy, Mrs. Serpas felt nauseated and went to Dr. Heiman. He gave her some pills, told her he would come to her house next...
With other managements plainly willing to go along with the Actors' Equity ruling that Negroes must be admitted to the audience, would Marcus Heiman's National Theatre come around? The National was losing money showing second-run movies, but Heiman still resisted. It was not the Negro-exclusion issue that bothered him, he indicated, but something else: "We will not permit a labor union to interfere with management or policy...
...Howard McGrath rang up the curtain on a little drama of his own. In Manhattan's federal district court he slapped on a civil suit charging the Messrs. Shubert with monopolizing the U.S. theater in violation of the antitrust law. For good measure, he also sued Marcus Heiman, joint owner with the Shuberts of the United Booking Office, the only agency in the U.S. through which producers can arrange nationwide tours for their shows...