Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promoted to second lieutenant in the Air Corps was Actor Burgess Meredith...
...Best performance by an actor: Burgess Meredith as the for-once-bearable Marchbanks in Candida...
...radiance. Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing. As the angular Prossy, Mildred Natwick, concurrently giving eight performances a week as the comic medium in Blithe Spirit, reached her comic high in Candida. But best of all was Private Burgess Meredith who, on leave from the Army with only four days to rehearse in, became the only bearable Marchbanks that anyone could remember -a winning poet rather than a whining...
Rothman, Edward Meredith...
...work, but serves as a testing field and improving plant for new theories. It is remarkable for its quick application of new discoveries to bedside practice. Some of its outstanding contributions to medicine: isolation of thyroid hormone (Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall); perfection of oxygen masks for aviators (Drs. Walter Meredith Boothby, William Randolph Lovelace II & Arthur Bulbulian); cutting fibers of the sympathetic nervous system to treat circulatory disturbances of hands and feet (Dr. Alfred Washington Adson); use of iodine in certain thyroid diseases (Dr. Henry Plummer...