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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Weir had a strong rival. The latest bulletin on the King's health bore the name of Dr. Horace Evans, 46-year-old member of the orthodox school. Queen Mary named Evans two years ago as her second physician, next to Weir; ever since, she has been saying loudly that she thinks he is the most brilliant young doctor in London...
...Homeopathy is a system of healing founded by Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann, German physician, in the late 18th Century. The name (literally, "like disease") refers to the belief that "like cures like"; i.e., that diseases can be cured by tiny doses of drugs that produce effects on the body like the symptoms of the disease. In the U.S., medical schools that were once homeopathic have been turning away from Hahnemann's teachings, toward orthodoxy and American Medical Association recognition. Last September, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, once a center of homeopathy, dropped homeopathy as a required course; Manhattan...
Born. To Lauren Bacall, 24, leggy cinemactress (To Have and Have Not, Key Largo), and Humphrey Bogart, 48, cinema tough-guy (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Key Largo): their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephen Humphrey. Weight...
...erratically, and almost failed after World War I. Boston's tough Frederic C. Dumaine, an old hand at finding gold in depleted tills,* bought control and resurrected Waltham. To make Waltham pay off, he dropped the designing department, and grudged every nickel spent on advertising, thus let the name be drowned out by younger companies. After cashing in on war contracts, Dumaine sold out in 1944 to Ira Guilden, ex-vice president of the Bulova Watch Co. and former brother-in-law of Watchmaker Arde Bulova...
Your editorial was hardly worthy of the name "responsible journalism." Forbes H. Norris...