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...when his contemporaries dreamed of becoming cowboys or firemen, seven-year-old Lucas Marsh already knew his life work: he would be a doctor. He was handicapped from the first. Mamma, a neurotic and mystic who believed that only the spirit could heal, hated the very idea of medicine and hysterically begged Luke to forget it. Daddy Marsh, the crude, unscrupulous owner of a string of harness shops, insisted that Luke shift his sights to business and the big money. Luke obediently said yes, mother, yes, dad; but what his parents never knew was that they had produced...
...Lucas Marsh is the hero of Morton Thompson's vast, sprawling novel, Not as a Stranger, a book as fantastically sincere as its hero. When Novelist Thompson died last summer at 45, he had to his credit an intense, rough-edged novel about Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, the identifier of childbed fever (The Cry and the Covenant; TIME, Nov. 14, 1949). One thing Thompson had obviously wanted to be: a doctor. Failing that, he had desperately wanted to write well, especially about doctors and medicine. He never became a doctor, and he never became a top writer, but what...
...novel's end, Dr. Lucas Marsh has learned that most men are compromisers, has learned to live with the facts of life without compromising too much himself. He has even learned that Kristina's virtues have it all over drawing-room talents. Most of all, Not as a Stranger is a heartwarming though crudely repetitive story of a passionate idealist whose passion is medicine. No novel ever written has contained more authentic, hard-won facts about doctors, patients, hospitals. Hypochondriacs will devour it; few of those who are not will consider its nearly 1,000 pages a waste...
...Boston's Summer Street last week, an elderly woman gazed at a store window and said: "It's the loveliest thing I ever saw." Behind the glass, Jordan Marsh Co. had set up an orchestra of 14 tiny angels dressed in gold and white against a pastel-blue background; the blond leader tapped a baton, and his musicians lifted their instruments to the strains (recorded) of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The woman's comment was heard often around the U.S. last week. For Christmas 1953, retail stores had spent $30 million to turn their windows into...
...Anthony, George B. Clark, Jr., Richard J. Clasby (Capt.), Joseph H. Conzelman, T. Jefferson Collidge, Jr., Robert R. Cowles, Alan H. Culbert, Nicholas G. Culolias, John C. Culver, William A. Frate, Robert B. Hardy, Richard J. Koch, Jr., Dexter S. Lewis, Carroll M. Lowenstein, John T. Maher, Jerry R. Marsh, William M. Meigs, Jan H. H. Mayer, Jr., Robert E. Morrison, Bernard E. O'Brien, F. Harvey Popell, Brian F. Reynolds, Joseph C. Ross, Jr., Orville M. Tice, William M. Weber, Frank H. White, Francis N. Millett...