Word: hoopers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Allen's start it is only a short leap to NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, by Benny Hooper Jr., THE POWER ELITE, by Georgy Malenkov, A CERTAIN SMILE, by Leonardo da Vinci, or THE SUN ALSO RISES, by Aly (MY SON, MY SON! Khan...
...feel that Dr. Kris's charges in the Hooper case were not only consistent but considerate. Have you hired an electrician or plumber lately? Also, are all of those patients of Dr. Kris's who might have consulted him during this period of 100 hours going to send him a check for the services they didn't receive? As for Benny's parents, who started the whole fuss by making public Dr. Kris's statement, I would like to say that if more parents spent more time supervising their children, fewer people would have...
Thus, echoing scores of editorials across the country, wrote New York Post Pundit Max Lerner last month when a gallant band of rescuers worked around the clock to pull seven-year-old Benny Hooper Jr. out of a well shaft at Manorville, L.I. (TIME, May 27). One of that gallant band was the Eastport volunteer fire department's physician. Dr. Joseph H. Kris. Called in by police, he stood by for almost 24 hours, supervising the piping of oxygen to the trapped...
...Bayview Hospital until the boy recovered from a touch of pneumonia. He was photographed with Benny and widely praised for having saved the boy's life. Last week Dr. Kris, 58, rudely shocked the U.S., which tends to hero-worship its doctors, by sending Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hooper Sr. a bill for professional services. The Hoopers make $5,460 a year, he as a highway department truck driver, she as a telephone operator. Amount of the bill...
Matter of Ethics. Kent and Borghild Hooper, who had learned about the press and TV during their ordeal, called in reporters. In the resulting uproar, Kris explained: "The time I put in was eight full days and close to 100 hours. My time is worth $30 an hour. I've given the service. It was a personal sacrifice to me." Furthermore, he thought he was merely following the widespread medical practice of charging (within limits) what the traffic will bear: he had heard that the Hoopers had got a lot of money in donations. Not so, retorted the Hoopers...