Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fewer Germs. Another new White House excursion into scientific gadgetry was more successful. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the President's personal physician (see Investigations), reported that two ultraviolet floor lamps, installed in the White House's Oval Room, had cut germs by 62%. General Graham planned to put germicidal lamps in other rooms; his charge is an easy victim of the common cold...
...Republican hunt for Government insiders who may have profited by speculation reached into the White House this week. Flushed up on one of Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson's lists of grain traders was the name of Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the President's personal physician. He was listed as having market commitments covering 50,000 bushels of wheat during September (when Government purchases were heavy and grain prices were zooming...
...explanation would probably not be enough for the House and Senate investigating committees, whose guns were primed for just such game. Compared with Harry Truman's friend Ed Pauley, who had 500,000 bushels of grain and a lot of other commodities (TIME, Dec. 22), the White House physician was a relatively small target, but he was probably in for some congressional pot-shooting, nevertheless...
...Alice Wynekoop, Chicago physician who gained tabloid fame in 1933 by murdering her daughter-in-law on the Wynekoop basement operating table, went free on parole after serving 13 years and nine months of her 25-year term...
Surrender. Tweedy, genial Dr. Harry Tiebout (pronounced teebo) is physician-in-charge of the Blythewood sanatorium in Greenwich, Conn. He is also a lecturer at Yale's School of Alcohol Studies and an admirer of Alcoholics Anonymous. Like many another psychiatrist, he had long wondered what mysterious power enables A.A. to reform alcoholics when psychiatry fails. He has decided that the secret of A.A.'s success is the alcoholics' surrender to a higher power. And Dr. Tiebout has figured out a psychiatrist's explanation...