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Apparently this Mr. X went around to every mailbox in the college at about 2 o'clock yesterday morning and dropped a little card, reputedly from the Department of Hygiene, announcing a lecture on "The Scientific Aspects of Birth Control." Dr. Arnold N. Childes, a mythical medico, was scheduled to give the lecture...
Green Light (Warner). This adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' 1935 best-seller exhibits Errol Flynn, last seen in the uniform of a British lancer in The Charge of the Light Brigade, somewhat less advantageously swathed in the white tunic of a U. S. medico. He is Dr. Newell Paige, an irreligious but idealistic young surgeon who, when a patient dies because of a blunder by his superior, generously takes the blame. The daughter (Anita Louise) of the mishap's victim likes Dr. Paige at first sight, hates him when she suspects him of being responsible for her mother...
Beagle, told what a young scientist thinks about on the threshold of his career. But Huxley's diary, unlike Darwin's, was not preoccupied by scientific fact nor visited by intimations of a great theory. A young medico of wide interests, with a keen eye and a susceptible heart, he wrote surprisingly little about his first big research...
...typical appearance at the Geographical Institute on November 16 where the French Films were being shown, Ogle's representation and description created great amusement. He characterized the medieval medico as offering to his patients the talents of a barber, an spotheoary, an alchemist, and a sorcerer. In his acute diagnosis of disease the "medecin" included only Black Bile. Phlegm and Bed Blood, while bleeding with leeches was his most potent cure...
...pleased medico was Captain Harry George Armstrong. 36, director of the Army Air Corps' Physiological Research Laboratory at Dayton. A married man with two children, he enjoys flying but is not a pilot. Long aware of the importance of parachuting, he made his jump as a precise laboratory experiment to uncover the basic facts of the matter. Last fortnight he published his findings, well substantiated by witnesses and figures, in the American Medical Association Journal. Excerpts...