Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, had "not told the truth" when he said he "lost his socks," but had actually turned a profit...
...swans. He likes to surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce, and he still wolfs his food. (At royal dinner parties he leaves his harassed guests time for barely one helping.) His physician, who plays the lute, declares that the King is in excellent health. Nevertheless, at 89, Gustaf...
...morning of Sept. 8, as rioting mounted in Delhi, a crowd of Moslems gathered ominously near a hospital run by a quiet little Hindu physician named N. C. Joshi. Even his Moslem neighbors in the slums of Karol Bagh district had known and liked Dr. Joshi for his work among the poor. This morning, however, the neighbors were armed with knives and spears. Dr. Joshi came out of the hospital. Someone fired a rifle. The good doctor dropped dead with a bullet in the skull...
...Marrakech, Morocco, Winston Churchill, 73, was out & around after 1) a tussle with a bad cold, 2) a spell of bronchitis, 3) a plague of morbid rumors that had far-off London wringing its hands. Wife Clementine flew down with her husband's private physician. Next day the patient went motoring, dealt the rumors a crushing blow by dining in public on soup, fish with mayonnaise, veal soufflé, cake with whipped cream, tangerines and coffee...
...yesterday of Richard Cresson Harlow, head football coach at Harvard since 1935. Coming 13 years to the day from the time when he took over the Crimson reigns from Edward L. Casey, the 58-year-old mentor's resignation followed closely on the heels of a communication from his physician, Dr. Walter Kempner of the Duke University hospital, Durham, North Carolina...