Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, situated next to him as demanded by his strict terms. Once, while nearly 1,000 chess fans watched and chuckled, Najdorf soared from his chair as if it were a hot seat, tripped and sprawled on the floor. Arising, he seized the lapels of his personal physician, always on hand at the matches, and screamed: "How am I?" Replied the tactful doctor soothingly to his nerve-racked patient: "Never better...
...Bourdillon, a nuclear physicist, and Charles Evans, a Liverpool physician, went up from Camp VIII toward the halfway mark-a rounded shoulder of rock known as the south summit. Stumbling and panting, they made it and vanished in the cloud beyond. No man had been higher and lived, but the pair lacked strength to go on. Back they came...
...confidently for a Wagnerian horn call only to burble or clonk out a sound like a moose cough. One man who rarely burbles or clonks on the most unpredictable of orchestra instruments is England's Dennis Brain. At 32, Brain (no kin to Winston Churchill's physician -see FOREIGN NEWS) is Britain's best horn player, and last week he showed off his skill in one of the rare pieces written for horn...
...Passed and sent to the White House the conference-approved bill extending the physician-dentist draft for two years, exempting any who have served on active duty for as long as 17 months since Sept...
Painter Goya-who died eight years after he finished the picture-presented Self Portrait to his physician as a gift; later it traveled around private collections in Madrid and Paris until 1952, when a Manhattan art gallery brought it to the U.S. What the Minneapolis Institute paid for it no one would say, but art critics consider it among Goya's best works...