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Following the first concert, Boston critics gave rave notices to the Harvard Radcliffe singers. Penfield Roberts of the Boston Globe described Davison's method of introducing serious music to the singers: "He simply says, informally, words to this effect: 'Fellows, I've got a dandy new piece for you-listen.' Then he sits down and plays and sings it for them, and instead of being bored they like...
Besides Father Lévesque, St. Laurent planned to give Senate seats to a Protestant churchman and to eight other non-political figures in public life. Dr. Wilder Penfield, Montreal's famed U.S.-born neurosurgeon, was another prospect...
...Task. Last fortnight, in the operating room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...
Cases like Elizabeth's have become almost routine at the institute. Last year 904 major operations were performed. Under Dr. Penfield, the institute has won an international reputation, attracted doctors and research fellows from all over the world. The institute houses both a hospital and McGill's neurological laboratories; when they are not treating patients, Dr. Penfield and his staff teach neurology and neurosurgery to McGill's medical students...
Says soft-spoken Dr. Penfield: "It is our task to accept the most desperate sufferers whether they come from farm, mine, factory, city, street, the home, or from other hospitals. We undertake apparently hopeless cases referred to us by doctors everywhere...