Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearer of the message and representative of the Ninety-Nines, an association of women fliers of which Mrs. Gillies is head, was Private Fliers Association Counsel Hav en B. Page (father of three). Mr. Page brandished five obstetricians' opinions on the flying competence of pregnant women.One physician maintained that women are completely capable during 90% of their pregnancy, successfully drive cars, sail boats, etc. Thin, emaciated women, vowed another expert, would be much better pilots if they were four months pregnant. Said he, it makes them feel better ; the attitude of "we males" is largely superstition...
Died. William Eberle Thompson, 104, "the nation's oldest practicing physician"; in Bethel, Ohio...
...play shrewish Mary Todd Lincoln, plays an even more difficult role as self-effacing Frau Ehrlich, and plays it better. By shadings of voice, gesture, glance, she becomes the wife who, excluded from her famous husband's death chamber by the presence of his great colleagues and his physician, sits playing the simplest of German love songs: Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. When she can be alone with him at last, he is dead. And her closing of the door upon herself and his body is the picture's last great directorial touch...
Called to the witness stand were such prominent friends of Dr. Lockhart as Professor Millais Culpin of the University of London, Psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees of London's Tavistock Clinic, Lord Dawson of Penn (King George V's physician). All agreed that Dr. Lockhart was suffering from a "fugue" or flight from reality, brought on by intense fear of a new war. His ordinary stream of consciousness was "suspended," his higher and lower brain levels "dissociated." Hence he had no understanding of the "nature and quality of his act." When his brief gust of abnormal activity had passed...
Blonde Cinemactress Ann Sothern, scheduled for an appendectomy, announced her scar would be crescent-shaped. Reason: "I have discussed all possible scars with my physician and I have chosen what I believe to be the most artistic. . . . It's costing me so much I'm going to keep it just 'for myself. I will contemplate its artistry in private...