Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lively show music as It's Me and Keep It Gay. There is an agreeable cast, gaily paced by George Abbott, gaily dressed by Irene Sharaff. There are some good Bob Alton dances, and Joan McCracken not only steps up the dancing but notably brightens the show. And Jo Mielziners "problem" sets are fascinatingly expert...
...uniform was drenched. Barely pausing, Dr. Frederick Andrew Johansen loosed a stream of expletives that he had learned as a boy among the mule skinners in Missouri. A couple of patients told the others what they had heard. From that first moment, the patients concluded that Dr. Johansen ("Dr. Jo") was as human as they come...
...Jo had decided to take the job at Carville for one year because of his interest in dermatology. But he stayed year after year as staff doctor, then as executive officer and finally as director. At first. he could give the patients only humanity and the traditional palliative, chaulmoogra oil. ("We used to take the oil three ways," a patient recalls. "Externally, internally and eternally...
Gradually, often by cussing out standpatters who were in his way, Dr. Jo got the word around Carville that leprosy was one of the least contagious of diseases (tuberculosis is a hundred times more catching), and that there was no need for its victims to be shunned so long as they were under a doctor's care...
Lately, under Dr. Jo's directorship, visitors have been welcomed at Carville (only children under twelve are barred), and the hospital has a team in a Baton Rouge softball league. Most important for the patients, they now know that most of them will go home...