Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years to recall the autumn day when as a young North Brookfield, Mass, practitioner three years out of Harvard Medical School, he was called to attend a sturdy French huntsman named LeTourneau who had accidentally blown off his face with a shotgun. The man's family and another physician, an old Army man, agreed with the young doctor on the best thing to do. Dr. Warriner gave the mangled huntsman a fatal dose of morphine...
Unenviable is the legal lot of a coroner or medical examiner. Unlike a private physician, who can abandon plans for an autopsy if relatives of the deceased refuse permission, he is ordinarily required by law to make such examination whenever violence is suspected or cause of death cannot otherwise be determined. But he may thereupon, like any private investigator, be sued by disgruntled relatives of the deceased. Last week medical examiners flocked to New City's court, hoping to see a precedent set against suits over the condition of a body after an official autopsy...
...name of mercy, I ask you to appoint a doctor to take my life. I am constantly in pain. I want to die. A competent physician could certainly kill me with less pain than I endure in an hour...
...Producer Zanuck got his idea for this picture from TIME'S story on the life of the Maryland physician who served a prison term for doctoring John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 4 & March 18). *"Annie Oakleys'' arc so called because holes are usually punched in them to prevent their being sold...
...blacks in the cast proved perfect actors. Crown is strapping Warren Coleman. Flashy, irrepressible Sportin' Life is John W. Bubbles of the dance team. Buck & Bubbles. Bess is Anne Wiggins Brown, daughter of a Baltimore physician, who learned to sing at the Juilliard School of Music. Todd Duncan, a rich-voiced baritone who heads the music department at Howard University, plays Porgy in such a way as to suggest that some day he might be a candidate for grand opera...