Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rene Coty, put it on again and stood at military salute during The Star-Spangled Banner and La Marseillaise. As he slowly trooped the line of a 280-man French air force honor guard, reporters noted that he seemed to be dragging his left foot, just slightly. Explained his physician, Dr. Howard McC. Snyder: "Sometimes he has that West Point [football] knee...
...friends, he could see, too, that the temper of Congress was even hotter than Mitchell's. Rather than face possible mass surgery from a congressional butcher knife-perhaps even an outcry in Congress for a federal right-to-work law-George Meany was prepared, however reluctantly, to take Physician Mitchell's prescription...
When Hurricane Audrey roared up toward the Gulf Coast last summer (TIME, July 8), the only physician in the marshland town of Cameron (pop. 3,000), at the southwestern corner of Louisiana, was Cecil William Clark, 33, who ran a community medical center with a twelve-bed hospital. Dr. Clark was confident that his new brick house would ride out the storm, but he was worried about the frame clinic building (with only a brick veneer) and its eight bedfast patients. Leaving their three youngest children at home with a maid, Dr. Clark and his wife Sybil (a nurse-anesthetist...
...attractive red-haired housewife named Elsie May Keene walked into the office of K. F. Reynard in Beaumont, Texas, told him a physician had said she was dying of diabetes. Reynard, one of Texas' 400 practicing naturopaths, knew just what to do for her. First he gave her repeated enemas. Next he administered the pendulum test-a piece of steel supported on chains between two rods which he held over Mrs. Keene's heart. "Your heart is beating too fast and the blood pressure is too high," he told her. His diagnosis continued: a large heart lesion which...
...most accounts a literary work of the first order, Pasternak's novel leads his physician-hero, Dr. Yuri Andreevich Zhivago, through World War I and the revolution to his death in 1929. It deals harshly with Communism's first years. Says one character: "I think that collectivization was a wrong measure and that it failed, though the error could not be acknowledged. To conceal the failure by every means that terrorism can suggest, it is necessary to make people learn not to think and to judge, forcing them to see things that do not exist and proving...