Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Extra Guests. Within 24 hours, the 80° weather worked its therapy. Queasy correspondents aboard the destroyers gathered in makeshift press rooms twice daily to hear Press Secretary Jim Hagerty relay by radio-telephone optimistic reports from Canberra. White House Physician Howard Snyder found the President coughing only occasionally. His head cold was easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead...
That problem concerns a physician's choice of whether to cure a patient or to let him die. The patient, dying of tuberculosis, is a brilliant young artist who is also a detestable human being. The doctor is the discoverer of a miraculously effective cure, which, however, only he knows how to apply. Since his clinic holds only one more available bed, he is forced to decide between healing the artist or another doctor, who is not particularly talented but a good and dedicated man. He ultimately picks the fine man rather than fine art--but that unhappy last...
...performance of Philip Harvey as Sir Colenso Ridgeon, the physician, is competent on the whole. He brings to the role the proper amount of dignity, which, however, tends at times to lapse into stiffness. Edith Iselin, who plays the artist's wife, suffers from something of the same trouble. Miss Iselin possesses a quite imposing stage presence, but in this production the emotions which she should be portraying seem swathed in a coating of ice. Her delivery is, if anything, too careful, and she shows too little willingness to vary her rather stately tempo of speaking...
...member of the group, portrayed by Peter Hugens, is a butcher of a surgeon who believes that all illnesses may be cured by an operation which he has originated. Hugens shows considerable technical ability in the part. The third man in the trio is an experienced and disillusioned old physician, and the most sympathetic character in the play--or so he seems in the capable hands of Charles Mee. But perhaps the most consistently amusing performance is the contribution of Nancy Curtis, who makes an all too brief appearance as a housekeeper...
...stubborn head cold. Tamped into his left ear was a medicated wad of cotton. To newsmen about to ply him with such lackluster inquiries as whether he drinks the District of Columbia's fluoridated tap water (he does), Ike explained that his hearing temporarily was not good (Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder's diagnosis: an inflamed Eustachian tube). The President advised the press to sound off loud and clear to help his handicapped hearing...