Word: jordans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office at the famed Lahey Clinic on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue this week marched a succession of men whose names read like a sample page from Who's Who in America-bankers and industrialists, politicians and diplomats. Their mecca was the consulting room of Dr. Sara Murray Jordan, chief of the clinic's department of gastroenterology, one of the world's most eminent woman physicians and a top authority on everything that can go wrong with the human digestive tract...
Into this office had come such notables as Actor Raymond Massey, Financier and ex-Diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy and his Senator son John, and choleric Columnist Westbrook Pegler. When Sir Anthony Eden visited the clinic for surgery last year, it was Dr. Jordan who did the vital diagnostic work on which the surgeons' lifesaving decision was based...
Reason for this week's flurry of activity was that Dr. Jordan, who will be 74 on Oct. 20, is retiring-not to a life of idleness, but to begin a new career as a medical writer. Many patients wanted a last, reassuring word. For her part, Dr. Jordan was shuffling case histories, making certain that her patients would go on getting the same care...
...storms, Nasser has become the increasingly acknowledged Mr. Big of the Arab world. Such was his prestige that last week Morocco and even his old rival, Bourguiba of Tunisia, felt compelled to join the Arab League. In the new Arab order taking shape after the Iraqi revolt, only Jordan and Lebanon had lined up against Nasser, and the Lebanon that elected Chehab was already trending back to the old Lebanese position of neutrality among Arabs. If Hammarskjold is undiplomatically candid when he makes his report to the U.N. Assembly later this month, he could report that the problem...
President Jordan invited the student body to take advantage of the resources of Harvard while becoming "women liberally educated to become responsible members of society." He emphasized the student body's academic potential and hoped that everyone would take advantage of the new program in which all are considered candidates for honors in the Social Sciences or Humanities...