Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler was in the latter phases of paranoia. He had been seriously injured in last summer's bomb plot. He had been partially paralyzed by an apoplectic stroke. He had undergone a throat operation. He was under the care of four doctors, including a brain specialist. On his physician's advice, he had retired to Berchtesgaden. He had been deposed by Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler. He was simply keeping out of sight so as not to associate himself in the minds of Germans with the days of defeat. He was dead...
Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre, the President's personal physician, hovered close; he would not leave, he said, unless or until the returns moved substantially in F.D.R.'s favor. (He left just before 11 p.m.) At 11:15 came the dull thump of a bass drum and the shrill tootle of fifes, and the usual torchlight parade of neighbors milled up the circular driveway...
Field Marshal Dill was a fast worker, but he knew no hours. To force him to rest, George Marshall took him to his home in Virginia for weekends, sometimes took him canoeing on the Potomac. When the second Quebec Conference was called, General Dill's physician forbade him to go. He went anyhow...
From then on, he was official physician for Pan American Airways, examiner for a U.S. life-insurance company, a civic leader in Agana, Guam's largest town. When the Government ordered all U.S. families home, A.P.'s Guam correspondent, pretty Mrs. Dorothy Trady Perry, had to go. Dr. Sablan took over her job, filed the news faithfully until the Japs came...
Hollywood Howl. When the complaint reached the U.S. last week, the indignant stars set up a howl of their own. Actress Goddard insisted that she had "played all but three days when I was ordered to bed by the Army physician." Comedian Brown, who has an outstanding record of devotion to soldier entertainment and whose soldier son was killed in a plane crash, angrily retorted that he "did all a 53-year-old man could do." The Hollywood Victory Committee blamed broken promises on Army snags, added that Ann Sheridan and Joel McCrea had both been , held up by lack...