Word: hurst
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...will be the subject of debate for years to come. Some attributed the decision to his health; one Democrat, in fact, reported that Johnson had been denied renewal of a $250,000 insurance policy if he decided to undertake a national campaign. But Johnson's cardiologist, Dr. J. Willis Hurst, noted that he has been healthy since his 1955 coronary attack, and is now "clearly in the category of a man who has never had a heart attack...
...only Warren Center activity directly affecting undergraduates is a series of visiting historians who normally present public lectures and participate in seminars and informal discussions with history students. The guests to date have been Edmund S. Morgan from Yale; Willard Hurst, legal historian at the University of Wisconsin; George Kennan; Daniel Boorstin, of the University of Chicago; and Richard Hofstadter (who refused to speak with any undergraduates) of Columbia. H. C. Allen, Professor of American History at University College in London, will lecture March 19 on "America: Land of Comfort and Violence," while on a visit to compare the Warren...
...Mark E. Silverman and Dr. J. Willis Hurst of Atlanta's Emory University School of Medicine presented their latest hand-and-heart findings to the American College of Cardiology last week. Although the cause and nature of a heart defect or disorder are often obscure, the doctors suggested that these may become apparent to "the cardiovascular sleuth who lingers a moment longer at the radial (wrist) pulse to inspect the hand closely...
Died. Fannie Hurst, 78, one of the most popular, if not most highly acclaimed, U.S. woman authors in the past half-century; in Manhattan. To many critics she was the sob sister of American letters, and her 30 novels and countless short stories little more than glorified True Confessions pap-orphan servant girls (Lummox, 1923), the secret love of a married man (Back Street, 1930), mother love (Imitation of Life, 1933). But her novels sold many millions of copies, and magazines paid $70,000 for the serial rights. "What success I enjoy," she once said, "comes from my inner convictions...
...Margaret Van Alen Bruguiere, the summer colony's grande dame, still lives in her 50-room "cottage," Wake-hurst, surrounded by a fortune in art and a dozen servants. Bailey's Beach, where the memberships pass from father to son, is still "the most exclusive swimming hole in the U.S." In the Newport Casino, ladies still sip tea under parasols, while their husbands, decked out in white flannels and old school blazers, watch the tennis matches. And at nightfall, there is the Preservation Society Ball, the Tennis Ball, the White Elephant Ball, the Jazz Festival, plus a progression...