Word: neurologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a young Swiss neurologist from the University of Berne tried to trick him into making mistakes, he growled: "I answer no doubters. Bother the asses...
...able to warn her against signing the commitment which the doctors urgently advised. After two more endless days-up at 5:30 a. m., back to a sleepless cot at 8 p. m., locked away from all telephones -his "sister" came back with a Park Avenue neurologist who succeeded in getting Bernard out by agreeing to take him to a private sanatorium. En route, the shaken "patient" admitted his identity to the rescuing doctor...
...years Dean Johnston-a neurologist, among whose contributions to learning is a study of the nervous system of vertebrates-has been trying to find out why college students flunk. Six years ago he started to follow the academic fortunes of every freshman who entered Minnesota. Last week in a learned treatise Scholarship and Democracy* he reported that more than one half (52%) of 1,438 who matriculated in 1931 never became successful students. Of the children of the poor, 15% won honor standing, 58% did satisfactory work; of the well-to-do, only 6.5% achieved honors, 42% passed. But only...
...blood and inheritance to Colonel Oliver H. Payne of Standard Oil. Rich but shy at 59, Mr. Bingham spends most of his time in his home in Bethel on the banks of Maine's Androscoggin River. He first went there to be near his old Cleveland friend. Neurologist John George Gehring, who had bought an old inn in Bethel for a private sanatorium.* When Dr. Gehring died in 1932, aged 75, Mr. Bingham, who had given $200,000 for the John G. Gehring Floor at the Neurological Institute in Manhattan's vast Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre, bought...
...Tucker Sanatorium in Richmond, Va. occupies a mansion where President James Monroe once lived. Still nourishing is a grapevine which Monroe imported from France and planted himself. Dr. Beverley Randolph Tucker, Richmond's leading neurologist, is a descendant of several First Families of Virginia. He took over the property in 1915. Thither, four years ago, was carried a strange patient, a delicate, wistful-eyed old Richmond lady who would not grow old. Her body, dressed as a little girl, was 61 years of age. Her mind and behavior were not more than seven...