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Doctor or Witch-Doctor. Oddly enough, the author who has put these incidents in perspective in a monumental (700-page) history of gynecology and obstetrics is no specialist in the field, but a medical journalist. Isaac Harvey Flack won a license to practice medicine in Manchester when he was only 21. Soon he joined the staff of the British Medical Journal, which he now edits along with a popular journal for laymen, Family Doctor. To avoid any charge of self-advertisement, Flack uses the pen-name "Harvey Graham...
...while, the young school barely managed to stay alive. But soon celebrities from overseas began to come to its rescue. Sir Richard Steele sent complete files of the Tatler and Spectator, and Sir Isaac Newton sent a copy of his Principia. Finally, a plump, periwigged gentleman named Elihu Yale, a retired East India merchant and a former governor in Madras, sent the most substantial gift of all: ?562 worth of goods...
...locked up in a church and bunk down for a restless night. Most of the action consists of their separate dreams, each one involving the others, a series of merging playlets stretched on the frames of familiar Bible stories (Cain and Abel, David and Absalom, Abraham and Isaac...
Bartok: Sonata No. 1 (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Making his Bartok bow on records, Fiddler Stern gets forcefully to the heart of this difficult sonata (1921) without losing his beautiful tone. Recording: excellent...
CHARLES A. ISAAC Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...