Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhetorical Question. The hospitals were in a financial bind. All operate at whopping deficits (up to $1,872,000 last year for Manhattan's Mount Sinai, biggest of those struck). Retorted the union: underpaid employees should not be called on to subsidize hospitals. A major drain on the voluntary hospitals has been that the city pays them only $16 a day for care of indigent patients, though it budgets $28 a day in its own hospitals. On July 1 it will begin paying $20, and the hospitals promised to use the extra funds to raise nonprofessional workers...
Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There...
...Simpson was chosen for his new post by fellow dons and canons, approved by Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Macmillan. He is not the first American to head a top English college; Manhattan-born Dr. Arthur L. Goodhart became master of Oxford's University College...
...sure none of my friends in New York expected this when I left five years ago," he said last week in his still Manhattan-tinted accent as he puffed a Dunhill cigarette. But he saw nothing odd about an American occupying a bastion of Britain. Said Anglican Simpson: "The United States Government doesn't seem to mind if I pray for Queen Elizabeth...
Married. Westbrook Pegler, 64, terrible-tempered Old Guard newspaper columnist; and Pearl Wiley Doane, 47, an energetic worker in Los Angeles Republican politics; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1955), she for the third; in Manhattan...