Word: medico
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...feet, puffing a long pipe of Bosnian cherrywood, while he murmured that "his genius was a poor, frail thing." It was. George left Alfred half dead in a Venetian hotel and took up with his Italian doctor. "Is it in you, my Pietro," Sand wrote to her medico, "in you at long last that I shall see my dream fulfilled?" It was not in Pietro...
Died. Captain Robert Huntington, 83, who went to sea at nine as cabin boy, skippered sailing ships around Cape Horn, and in 1921, from his small Manhattan radio station (KDKF), first adopted the call for medical assistance: MEDICO-a signal which takes precedence over all other calls at sea except S O S; on Staten Island...
...Writer Nunnally Johnson's adaptation of an I.A.R. Wylie story, the stranger is an attorney (Gary Merrill) who is running out on his unfaithful wife. On a plane trip, he meets a brassy stripteaser (Shelley Winters) with a heart of gold and mother-in-law trouble, a moody medico (Michael Rennie) who is morally sick over a past misdeed, and a loudmouthed traveling salesman (Keenan Wynn). When the plane crashes, the attorney is the only one of the quartet who survives. In the process of reconstructing the three casualties' lives, his own problems conveniently fall into place...
...known homosexuals in the area had been questioned, the police heard of a teen-aged orphan who was boasting to his friends of a similar crime. This type of report reaches police headquarters every day, but on checking, they found that his story was consistent with what he medico-legal examiner had found...
...knew how effective it could be. George McGrath, former medical examiner in Boston and friend of Mrs. Lee, had experimented with medico-legal investigations that cleared several men convicted on circumstantial evidence. When McGrath died, Mrs. Lee established the McGrath Memorial Library on Legal Medicine for the new-born department...