Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missionary-Educator Frank Laubach, who has taught millions of Asians and Africans to read through his international literacy program (TIME, June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money and personnel in the U.S. for an intensive five-year program...
Andrew W. Contratto, physician at the Hygiene Department, pointed out that chances for sterility increase every minute a mumps patient is on his feet. He said he could not remember a University student ever suffering impotency from mumps, but added that the possibility existed even when the best hospital care is taken...
...trio of elderly female angels of the Communist Daily Worker; in Manhattan. Onetime Schoolmarm Woodruff, a Smith College graduate and a D.A.R., joined Anna Whitaker Pennypacker (daughter of Pennsylvania's 1903-07 governor, Samuel W. Pennypacker) and Mrs. Ferdinanda W. Reed (daughter of a Cambridge, Mass, physician) in providing the Worker with an early-American front after 1940. She once explained why Representative Martin Dies had never called her to testify before his Un-American Activities Committee: "The public would certainly make fun of him for bothering three old ladies like...
...planters, or Singapore's British businessmen. They had not openly objected to his marriage back in 1930 to Scottish-born Helen Wilson (after he had shed an unspecified number of Moslem wives, and she had shed a husband who happened to be the Sultan's personal physician), but they left him in no doubt about their views of his method of divorcing Helen. In the traditional Moslem manner, the Sultan called it off by saying "Talak [I divorce you]" the required three times...
Girls who do not get along with their fathers are likely to grow up sexually frigid, and when they marry they are candidates for indigestion and gallstones. Moreover, their husbands will probably take to drink or develop ulcers. These conclusions are reported by a Scottish physician in the eminent British Lancet. A painstaking Glasgow diagnostician, Dr. G. Gladstone Robertson did not go looking for patients to fit a prefabricated theory. Instead, he felt obliged to adopt the psychosomatic approach as the only way to explain the illnesses of hundreds of patients...