Word: physicians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eugenic Reale. Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, holds the party's foreign portfolio. He is a physician, a brilliant conversationalist and a bon vivant who has the puffy, pouting look of a constipated baby...
Died. Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt, 66, South African poet, physician, surgeon and gourmet (he relished lion meat, and recommended that babies imbibe wine rather than milk*); of a heart attack; in Capetown...
...majority of miners are members of prepaid medical-care plans conducted jointly by mine owners and the union. But doctors are often appointed by favoritism (with the union conniving) and patients often have no choice of a physician. Medical service does not cover childbearing or venereal disease. Three-fourths of the hospitals available to miners are substandard in some way; hospital insurance plans drastically limit benefits (e.g., they do not cover hospitalization for a contagious disease). Despite the high rate of mine accidents, only 28% of the mines have adequate first-aid facilities...
...morning walk because of chilling rain. His old Army barber, Frank Spina, dropped by to give him a haircut, reported that the presidential locks had scarcely thinned since 1917. Just before noon Harry Truman got the news he had come for. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the Presidential physician, reported that old Mrs. Truman would be sitting up by the end of the month, might even be able to walk again...
Smallpox vaccinations continue to be available to men who find it necessary to visit New York in the near future, Andrew E. Contratto, physician, Department of Hygiene, announced yesterday afternoon. Dr. Contratto advised students to cancel pleasure trips to the city, stating that although men who take proper precautions will run no risk, the Hygiene department wishes to avoid a rush for inoculations...