Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody on Chicago's South Side-and in U.S. medicine-knows what Michael Reese is: a first-rate hospital center that treats countless charity cases as well as paying patients...
...anybody in the neighborhood is asked about Michael Reese, whose name is carved in bold stone above the main entrance, he has a hard time answering. "A German immigrant who made his fortune in California real estate," is the accepted version. The cynical have more colorful addenda. Reese (ne Ries) was a peddler who went to California in the wake of the Forty-Niners and, some say, made himself a stake by rolling gold-laden drunks as a sideline...
Barbery Coast. Bachelor Reese's will said that his heirs (mostly in-laws) should use $200,000 of his $2,000,000 fortune for charity. They decided in 1879 to back a hospital, adding carefully that it was "to be called the Michael Reese Hospital for all time to come." Also they ruled "that the hospital be nonsectarian, that the sufferers, no matter of what religion or nationality, if found worthy and there be room, be admitted." The site, 29 blocks south of the Loop, was then on the lake shore and in the city's most fashionable...
...stories told in a series of flashbacks. The first and best concerns Edward Mulhare, a Christian Irishman who starts out as a British plainclothesman and ends up serving in the Israeli ranks because of his love for a Jewish girl, sensitively played by Haya Hararit. The second tells of Michael Wager, a Jew from New York City (but, refreshingly, not from Brooklyn), who is both wounded and briefly disillusioned in an unsuccessful attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. This episode gives a cleanly realistic picture of street fighting: instead of charging pell-mell at the enemy, the Israelis advance...
Four assistant Band managers were also appointed Saturday. They are: David S. Barnet '58, of Eliot House and New Bedford, Mass., Samuel H. Kim '58, of Winthrop House and Watertown, Mass., Kenneth H. Lang '58, of Eliot House and Pleasant Ridge, Mich., and Michael N. Oxman '58, of Dunster House and New Rochelle...