Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago Dr. Zahorsky made up his mind to retire, go back to Steelville and test his theories by taking care of child patients for aged (eightyish) Dr. Rainey Parker, Steelville's only general practitioner. The results were even better than he had hoped for: of 300 cases, 296 got well without going to a hospital; two of the polio victims had to be hospitalized; two children (one with leukemia, one with congenital heart disease) died despite being hospitalized...
Ater 14 years of marriage and three of divorce, Poetess Dorothy Parker, 57, was remarried in Bel-Air, Calif, to second husband Alan Campbell, 43. Explained Screen Writer Campbell: "I just called her up in New York and asked her and she said yes." What about the honeymoon? "We're not going away," said Dorothy. "We've been everywhere...
...great many other Americans felt the same way. For the past fortnight that Russian face on the nation's television screens blocked not only Howdy Doody, but such other favorites as Lucky Pup, and Life with Snarky Parker. But the show that replaced them-a curious mixture of boredom and excitement, alternating long-winded oratory with sharp, electrifying statements of historic rights & wrongs-was definitely worth America's while. To millions of Americans it brought the unique experience of seeing the enemy right in their living room...
...Philadelphia, the Rev. Everett C. Parker, director of the Protestant Radio Commission, demanded more religious broadcasts: "We will not bow before the demands that soap and cigarettes be first in people's thinking . . . Religion is not a hobby with the American people, nor is it a hunger felt only...
...first the case seemed a mere formality. Luther Eustis, a sternly God-fearing farmer of middle age, had confessed the murder of Beulah Ross, the sexy teenager who ran away with him for an illicit two-week idyll. But when Parker Nowell took Farmer Eustis' case, that changed matters a bit. Lawyer Nowell was a sour misogynist but he was also a brilliant courtroom tactician who "never took a case unless it was hopeless, and it was a long way from hopeless" when...