Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just read your report on convalescing Philippine Leader Manuel Quezon in a Johns Hopkins Hospital bed, and his quandary as to which physician to obey when he wanted a drink [TIME, Nov. 12]. Señor Quezon had no qualms about what kind of food he wanted when well enough to eat. He consulted no doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece...
...mentions several methods of dealing with dyslexia cases which have been used with moderate success. Among them is the system employed by Hinshelwood, an English physician, who first dealt with a number of these cases by resorting to the discarded alphabet method of learning to read by spelling out the words orally. This, Dr. Dearborn says, at least guaranteed the right direction of eye movements and their correlation with a sequence of letter sounds. For older children, typewriting has been utilized. This has the merit of being a bi-manual activity, and is thus suited to the ambi-dextrous...
...until his death. With the Pennsylvania, Pressagent Lee first applied his theory that a corporation should "take the public into its confidence." He "humanized" tracks and freight rates, dividends and dollars. The idea worked well for Pennsylvania, and even better for Ivy Lee, who came to hear himself called "Physician to Corporate Bodies...
...rich bravura part, Miss Bankhead impersonates a dashing, devil-may-care sportswoman named Judith Traherne. Thoroughly rebellious, she is taken to see Dr. Steele (Earle Larimore of the Theatre Guild), a brain specialist, by her family physician who is unable to diagnose an obscure ailment of which she is as intolerant as she is afraid. Dr. Steele, about to move to Vermont and settle down to general practice, has the unhappy task of discovering that the young woman has a brain tumor which will kill her in ten months...
...play Moliere vents his spleen upon the medical profession with pungent humor. Prominent among the features promises to be a song by a quack physician, sung by Eli Boynton '35. Four doctors will trip a ballet to music by Lulli, an exhibition of Terpsichorean art in which Louis XIV himself took part in the original performance...