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Twelve per cent of all draftees accepted by local draft boards have been rejected by the U. S. Army for physical defects. Recently an Army induction officer found a Chicago draftee with a glass eye. Growled the disgusted medico: "Some of these days one of these boys is going to come in here with a wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Eye, Leg | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

DIAGNOSIS: MURDER - Rufus King Crime Club ($2). Seven stories (one long) presenting Dr. Colin Starr, snappy young medico-criminologist. Starting from a gazebo hanging over Laurel Falls, Dr. Starr cleverly psychs his way about Ohio to the benefit of society at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: January Crime | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Jupiter Laughs (by Dr. A. J. Cronin, produced by Warner Bros.). In his first play, Dr. Cronin (Hatter's Castle, The Citadel) dwells moodily on the hoary conflict between science and religion. Prime ingredients of his dramatic formula: an agnostic young medico who swears and leches, a lady physician who loves the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Asserting that "the filed of legal medicine has not hitherto been adequately developed in America," Burwell stated that the expanded department will make consultation service available to public law enforcement agencies, will conduct research in medico-legal problems, and will teach graduate and undergraduate medical students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURWELL REPORTS INCREASE OF WORK IN LEGAL MEDICINE | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

...literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are not yet so bad as that here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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