Word: medico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About one death in five in the U.S. calls for official investigation. So says Dr. Le-Moyne Snyder, medico-legal director of the Michigan State Police. The number of unsolved killings is considerable. Dr. Snyder believes that this is largely due to police bungling. To show the need for scientific detection, he published last week an elementary manual on murder (Homicide Investigation, Charles C. Thomas...
...doctors needed for war were set on a flat population ratio so as to leave one physician for every 1,500 civilians, it has been easier to recruit doctors in the low-income areas than in the States where a captaincy is a painful financial comedown for a successful medico...
...York City's Mayor LaGuardia, precipitated the loudest Manhattan art squabble since Frederick MacMonnies' famed statue of Civic Virtue ("the Fat Boy") was exiled to a suburban square. The mayor referred to a slab-limbed plaster aviator, titled Wings for Victory, by Sculptor Thomas Lo Medico (see cut). Winner of a $1,000 prize in an Artists for Victory Inc. competition, the aviator, in a 24-ft. copy, was to have towered over the Fifth Avenue plaza before Manhattan's Public Library. Gloomed Sculptor Lo Medico: "We sculptors have to know about carpentry, and mathematics, and modeling...
Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...
Prue Hathaway (Joan Fontaine), upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...