Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been too impressed. Tom, the mustacheless image of his father, had looked over briny Great Salt Lake and had dismissed it with "Give me the pool at our house in Albany any time." During the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, he had signed autographs with a patient smile. Politicking had been more fun. He had sidled around the lobby of the Hotel Utah, spotting governors by their name badges and surreptitiously reading the name. Then he marched up and offered his hand with a hearty: "How do you do, Governor So-&-So, I'm Tom Dewey...
Chaser. In Battle Mountain, Nev., a patient cop warned Frank Pace the first time he did it, pinched him 20 minutes later when Pace landed his plane, taxied down Main Street, parked in front of a tavern and strolled in for a beer...
...helped into his greatcoat by his wife. One of the boys helped him hitch up the horses. When the doctor set off in the sleigh, two boys went along, whipping the horses through the big drifts. It was an emergency surgery case. Operating on his patient on a farmhouse kitchen table, by the light of kerosene lamps, Dr. Heise was glad to have his rugged sons on hand as assistants. Driving home afterward, they talked over the operation...
...Vandalia, Ill. just about doubled its population in one day. Some 4,000 newcomers, almost all of them blind, deaf, lame or incurably ill, were there to be healed. The self-styled healer: William Branham, a bald, narrow-shouldered, shiny-eyed Kentuckian and ex-power company lineman. As each patient walked or was carried past, Branham prayed over him, felt him to see if he vibrated with demons. When the last hallelujahs had died away and the collection had been taken, one young man announced that he had flung away his hearing...
Living Dangerously. In Elmira, N.Y., St. Joseph's Hospital treated a right middle finger, dislocated when the patient pulled his hand out of his pocket. In Greencastle, Ind., thirsty John Torr tilted his head to drink a bottle of pop, was hospitalized with a cracked vertebra...