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...busy on the phone, answering his mail, badgering his contacts and just plain digging for stories-as when he broke, in effect, the state's case against Virginia Carroll in the shooting of Politician William F. Meade (TIME, April 7, 1952). He is usually home in suburban Bryn Mawr by about 7 p.m. for his ceremonial "B and B" (Brahms and bourbon). The Brahms comes from an elaborate hi-fi set and, during the music, Selby spends an hour or so reading his mail. Selby's three children have made occasional appearances on his television show, usually...
...Saroyan play. There is Bill Kilk, "the twelfth-richest man in the country," who manufactures "KwiK, The Lightnin' LaKsative" and "Hairum-Skarum (takes the bristles off women's legs)." There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue. There is the wily "Eye." a private detective who flunked his FBI physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there is Millionaire Kilk's man Friday, whose English is by way of Harry...
Katharine Elizabeth McBride, president of Bryn Mawr College . . . . LL.D...
There was no denying that Hodge had a special talent. Iowa-born, he interned at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital, studied surgery at Boston's Lahey Clinic before he moved to Bryn Mawr in 1940. Said one fan: "I am the father of three children whom I love deeply. Should they require surgery, I would unhesitatingly ask Dr. Hodge to perform that operation." But Philadelphia Attorney Laurence H. Eldredge commended the Bryn Mawr board and said: "It is not enough that Hodge can serve a patient with satisfactory results. He must also be a man of integrity." The American...
Last week, the embattled doctor tried to get away from Bryn Mawr. He applied for a position as surgeon at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's Hospital, a 200-bed institution run by the Roman Catholic Order of Felician Sisters. Without having been formally accepted, Hodge had already performed one operation at St. Joseph's, and more were scheduled. Nevertheless, at week's end Hodge's supporters were still hoping to bring him back to Bryn Mawr...