Word: mundo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, who used 8,000 Latin American dolls and folk figurines from his huge collection (see color pages...
Working with Holland, Dr. del Mundo got 400 U.S. and Allied children out of the camp and cared for them as long as the Japanese would let her. Then the following year the Japanese cracked down, herded Dr. del Mundo's patients back into Santo Tomas, and denied her access to them. The last time she saw Holland, he was down to a skeletal 95 Ibs. For most of the next 23 years, neither heard anything of the other. She thought he had probably died of starvation; he thought the Japanese had probably executed...
Last week, by strange coincidence, the two met again in Geneva, N.Y. During the winter, the Medical Women's International Association had picked its president, Pediatrician Fe del Mundo, to receive its Elizabeth Blackwell award, named for the first woman to earn an M.D. degree in the U.S. The scene for the ceremony was the Geneva campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, for it was in Geneva in 1849 that Elizabeth Blackwell became a doctor...
...made the most heartfelt speech at the presentation of the award was Dr. Albert E. Holland, Dr. del Mundo's long-lost friend from Santo Tomas. After his release, Holland had turned from business to education, and last spring Hobart's trustees picked him to take over as president, beginning this month...
...Educator Holland has gone far, so has Pediatrician del Mundo. She has done research in bacteriology as well as pediatrics, and written extensively on both. She has set up the 100-bed Children's Memorial Hospital in Quezon City (a Manila suburb), with an institute of maternal and child health recently added, and has gone deep into debt to pay the running costs. Dr. del Mundo accepts donations and whatever fees patients can pay, but no govern ment money. Now she has a new volunteer fund raiser - Albert Holland...