Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making the rounds with a doctor uncle, young Tom saw many such cases. The mother of one of his best friends died of pellagra. Tom decided to be a physician...
After the first angry blast at Dr. Berger's claims, a handful of sports figures-a few American pro footballers, a former Olympic swimmer from Australia, a Canadian team physician-frankly admitted that the doctor had a point. When he was playing for the Detroit Lions, recalled Quarterback Tom Dublinski, who later switched to the Toronto Argonauts, he once took a pill that pepped him up too much. "It hopped me up to high heaven," said Dublinski with a shudder. "That's no good-a quarterback has to be steady...
...Republic, and the national commander of the American Legion charged in 1955 that it was "threatening and may succeed in crippling the national security." Some citizens have boycotted Ford cars; others deluged Henry Ford II with outraged letters. "Your grandfather would spin in his grave," wrote an Albany physician, "if he could see the antics of the people who are spending good American dollars earned in the good American way by your once-fine company." Wrote someone from Los Angeles: "Dear Henry: Drop dead...
...Libby is not alarmed by strontium 90. In his widely publicized letter to Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer (TIME, May 6), he said that its threat to growing children is at present about the same as from "the additional dosage that a resident at sea level would receive from cosmic rays if he moved from a beach to the top of a hill a few hundred feet high...
...students in the entry have been asked to undergo immediate chest X-rays and tuberculin tests, Dr. John C. Wells, Assistant University Health Service Physician, said last night. Wells emphasized that the tuberculosis cases are not "unique," and pointed out that two instances of the disease were also reported last year...