Word: medicant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Snyder, 74, is a career Army medic who has been retired and returned to active duty three times, always under the command of his old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. He is one of the President's favorite bridge partners...
Blue Star (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). The long-breathed melody that is the theme for TV's Medic, set to some wistful words. Songbird Sanders puts more than clinical interest into her stargazing...
With a design speed of between 150 and 200 m.p.h., the McDonnell XVi is built to carry four passengers (or two casualties and a medic) plus the pilot. As an Army or Air Force jack-of-all-work, it may be used, after further development, to supplement slower, shorter-ranged conventional small helicopters for liaison, rescue and reconnaissance missions. Its enthusiasts see the XV1 as a major advance toward easier civilian air transportation in the future; by 1965 travelers may be able to board convertiplanes at skyscraper platforms within blocks of their homes or offices, speed off for a visit...
Manic Depression. Health hints were scattered throughout the week in TV's typical buckshot fashion. Omnibus showed the staccato heartbeat of a pretty girl suddenly confronted by a spider, moments later probably scared more viewers than it enlightened with a closeup film sequence of a delicate heart operation. Medic used Lee J. Cobb to illustrate the dangers of manic depression in the case of a bachelor bank clerk. The Search, explaining that marriage produced so many problems because it was the most complex of all human relationships, blamed most failures on the lack of adequate communication between husband...
LACMA also rides herd on the program itself, ever since the first show brought in a flood of complaints that a resuscitation method used on a newborn baby was obsolete. LACMA acts both as a censor and a prod to Medic. A show dealing with homosexuality was "tabled" by the doctors, but they have lifted some TV taboos, e.g., in a film about an unwed mother, NBC balked when the doctor-as he normally would-asked the girl when her last period had occurred. LACMA insisted that the word stay...