Word: hume
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Dr. Edward Hume, of Yale and Johns Hopkins, had been sent to Hunan Province to do just that. He opened his dispensary on one of Chang-sha's main streets in November 1906. It was not much of a place to look at-four whitewashed rooms in what had been an old inn. The original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China...
...Hume eventually became president of Hsiang Ya, helped to bring a new kind of medicine to China, also learned that China's ancient medical traditions had "unsuspected values" in terms of human nature and the psychological causes of disease. Medicine, he knows, can be "a builder of bridges between nations and cultures...
Most Americans who remember the Prohibition Era would rather not. But to Norman Hume Anthony, onetime editor of Judge, Life and Ballyhoo, ft is the time when Americans were happiest. His autobiography, just published, How to Grow Old Disgracefully (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3) is a flippant, bawdy, superficial account of phenomenal success and complete comedown in the tricky business of trying to make magazine readers laugh. It is also the most unashamed backward look at the National Bender in a long time...
...surest and most honest handlers of melodrama (Bataan, The Cross of Lorraine). Its chief players, Garfield and Turner, are box-office naturals. The forlornly prosperous roadside menage is an excellent set and there is, throughout, an unusual feeling for mannerism, place and atmosphere. The supporting work of Hume Cronyn and Leon Ames as lawyers is so good it. knocks a hole right through the picture...
Robert Shannon, hero of A. J. Cronin's story (little Dean Stockwell and, later on, Tom Drake), is an Irish Catholic orphan, adopted by a Scottish Protestant family. The father (Hume Cronyn), a penny-pinching petty tyrant, sells the child's sole heirloom, a velocipede. The grandmother (Gladys Cooper), a termagant, makes him a green flower-sprigged suit out of a petticoat. The great-grandfather (Charles Coburn), a sort of marked-down Falstaff, heartlessly clips his toenails in the waif's face, but soon shows that this was mere gruffness. The schoolboys tease the orphan about...