Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Logic. In Harvard, Neb., Robert Pinckney, 16, bought four lots at a tax sale, demanded from the city fathers $20 back rent and a $40 sales price for the town jail thereon. They turned right around and fired his father, town physician...
...Signalman, Second Class, Evan Owen Jones of Los Angeles. Slim, blue-eyed, 21, Signalman Jones had in 1939 been valedictorian of his class at Los Angeles' Fremont High School, had entitled his address "A Young Man Asks Questions." Before House Sergeant-At-Arms Kenneth Romney and Capitol Physician Dr. George W. Calver, who quickly exonerated him of all charges of drunkenness or neurosis, he said: "Those people in there are fighting the Civil War all over again. They've got to work together more to help this country. I believe we have the best government anywhere...
...Penicillin is quickly eliminated in the urine. A physician must continually check its concentration in a wound or in the blood stream to make sure enough is present to prevent bacteria from multiplying (penicillin does not kill bacteria; the coup de grâce is delivered by the white blood cells...
...artists, and a few scientists, the hand is as revealing as the face in expressing temperament, heredity, life habits, glandular function. One such scientist, Dr. Charlotte Wolff, physician and psychologist, last week gave her second summary of findings in the science of chirology. In The Human Hand (Alfred A. Knopf, $3) she carried on her rescue of the hand from the hocus-pocus of palmistry and fortunetelling, gave laymen some interesting reading as well...
Victim of infantile paralysis since last October, redheaded Alain Darlan, 29, son of the late French Admiral, turned up at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital-almost certainly by the kindness of Franklin Roosevelt. With him were his mother, his pretty blonde wife Annie, a French physician, and a French orderly. Flown out of the Algiers danger zone last December, Darlan arrived in the U.S. by ship three weeks...