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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further news last week on U. S. public opinion, see p...
...brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation, then always jotted down notes and sketched diagrams for hospital...
...Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great Neurologist Frederick Tilney. Last year, after wielding an influence among devoted young neurologists second only to that of famed Harvey Gushing (see p. 60), Dr. Tilney died. As acting director, the trustees appointed modest Dr. Robert Frederick Loeb. Last week, warmhearted, diplomatic Tracy Putnam came down from Harvard to take Dr. Tilney's place...
...Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony was followed by a large buffet luncheon party at Admiralty House, complete with dukes...
When it met in Atlantic City, N. J. last fortnight, the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church had only one big item on its agenda: to declare itself legally dead. The M. P. Church, split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference...