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Mudd, after leaving Harvard, served for two years as an intern at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was later a Dalton Scholar and a resident physician in cardiology there...
Even the cockiest intern can lose his nerve the first time he cuts open a live human being. "It went horribly," admits Dr. William Nolen, recalling his own baptism, a routine appendectomy, at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital 17 years ago. "My knot-tying proficiency had melted away. My fingers, greasy with fat, simply would not perform. My ties slipped off the vessels, the sutures snapped in my fingers; at one point I even managed to tie the end of my rubber glove into the wound...
...though none of us could have explained exactly why we wanted to review Wolfe's book, any more than we could have explained exactly why we slavishly read the Times and Post each day, pay for our summers through the Newspaper Fund, intern at Newsday or the Post, speak derisively of Reston and Broder and Evans and Novak, absolutely exult in drinking with King or Lucas or Halberstam, the moment did seem just the kind of thing for which we were perpetually waiting...
Danforth is a native of St. Louis, and after attending Princeton and the Harvard Medical School (1951), he returned there as an intern before joining the Faculty of Washington University...
Irresistible Lure. Gramco's leaders have impressive backgrounds. Keith Barish, 26, chairman of the top holding company, is a onetime White House intern who conceived the idea for the fund and has made millions from the venture. Rafael G. Navarro, 34, Gramco's president, is a wealthy Cuban refugee who was a diplomat in pre-Castro days. And then there is the portly Salinger, 45, the former White House press secretary; he serves as a Gramco director, spokesman, supersalesman and deputy chairman of the British unit...