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Eleven days later Miss McKenney became the second Mrs. Michael Lyman- "Conway" proving to be only a penname adopted by radical Mike out of deference to his wealthy family ("A scion, eh?" whistled Sister Eileen: "Remind me to look twice at the next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger...
Your Jan. 30 account of Columbia Historian Carlton Hayes once falling from his lecture platform recalls a similar pratfall by famed Harvardian George Lyman Kittredge. Picking himself up from the floor with monumental dignity, he faced the tittering class and said: "This is the first time I have ever descended to the level of my students...
When she was growing up in the gaslit, rococo elegance of post-bellum New York, Mary Bullock Powers seemed an extremely lucky child. She was not only healthy and pretty, but certain to be rich. Her father was brother, partner and heir of Hollis Lyman Powers, a millionaire friend of Vanderbilts and Goulds, and director of the storied Grand Central Hotel. Mary lived in a Fifth Avenue mansion, rode behind gleaming carriage horses and had lovely clothes...
Peace & War. As long ago as 1932 the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, headed by the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (then Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, longtime president of Stanford University), reported after five years of study: "Human life in the U.S. is being wasted as recklessly, as surely, in times of peace as in times of war. Thousands of people are sick and dying daily in this country because the knowledge and facilities that we have are inadequately applied. We must promptly put this knowledge and these facilities to work...
...prosecute their case. This they left to the American Medical Association. Once (during World War I), the A.M.A. had favored compulsory, health insurance. But during Dr. Morris Fishbein's long (1924-49) and bellicose editorship of the A.M.A.'s Journal, the tune changed. Though Republican Ray Lyman Wilbur was an M.D. and a past president of the A.M.A., his committee's 1932 report was denounced by Fishbein as "socialism and communism." Under Fishbein's leadership, the A.M.A. at first also opposed both hospital insurance and surgical-medical insurance...