Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treats us, at some time or another, for most of the ailments common to office workers everywhere and for those peculiar to an organization like TIME. The common cold, of course, is our greatest foe, and the medical department gives out about 600 sets of cold tablets a month. Miss Ryerson is constantly removing bits of Manhattan from our eyes, fixing people who get hit on the head by file drawers, patching up the bruised elbows of those who tilt their chairs back too far, mending fingers that get caught in doors and stapling machines...
...home front also Miss Ryerson is usually the first to learn of coming events-generally by telephone from expectant mothers who want to know "what the doctor meant" when he said so-and-so. She is also invaluable in cases of emergency when some of us are unable to reach the family physician immediately. During the war she became accustomed to all sorts of emergencies, including this one: someone telephoned from his office and asked to see her at once on an important matter. When he arrived, he asked to be shown how to make a hospital bed. It seemed...
TIME researchers also occasionally turn to Miss Ryerson for emergency help in verifying the medical details of news stories. What she doesn't know, she can, of course, find out-sometimes with engaging results. Asked one day what items went into an emergency kit for snake bite, she called a herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo to make sure. The excited zooman refused to tell her a thing until she told him what kind of poisonous reptile had bitten...
From long experience, Miss Ryerson maintains that she can recognize almost any TIME employee by looking at his throat. Her work, of course, is mainly preventive medicine and, although she says that TIME'S employees are an extraordinarily healthy lot, the records kept by her staff have proved very useful to doctors needing accurate information about someone's health history. This kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband...
...Miss Stanwyck, who does well enough with a tough, worldly kind of part, is baffled by the sleight of hand required for this one. Humphrey Bogart also appears uncomfortable. Violence and murder are old stuff to him, but madness and paintbrushes are not quite in his line. Little Miss Ann Carter manages to make a precocious child seem likable and attractive. Thanks to her, the picture is almost worth the trip...