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...need around here is for house calls, and I make two or three a day.'' Dr. Sills charges $3 for an office visit, $1.50 for an injection, but cuts the fees for the poor. Negro patients make up one-third of his practice. About half the patients plunk down cash on Mrs. Sills's desk as they leave, and most who are billed pay promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Country Doctor | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Stories, a collection of four longer cartoon features, is also among us. They can be read, or rather looked through, in about a half hour apiece, and this is pretty quick considering that Passionella retails for $1.75 in paperback. But there is not much else to do except to plunk down even these enormous sums, unless you can borrow, steal, or arrange to be given the books, because Mr. Feiffer is a deft, knowledgeable and brilliantly witty cartoonist, satirist, and "observer," as they say, "of the contemporary scene...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Passionella and Other Stories | 4/30/1959 | See Source »

...third shot plopped sluggishly onto the soggy 18th green of the Gettysburg Country Club, rolled to within 10 ft. of the pin, stopped. His fourth rolled smartly toward the cup, dropped with a pleasant plunk for a par. Said smiling Dwight Eisenhower, having added a polished ending to his rusty first round of golf since Augusta last November: "It sure feels good to get a round under your belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Four Days Away | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Nast Publications lost $534,528 last year-although Vogue finished in basic black. But Newhouse was so convinced of Condé Nast's potential that he did not even bother to take a hard look at the books, talked only briefly to Patcévitch before agreeing to plunk down some $5,000,000 for 51% control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for Mitzie | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...rollicking history of musical instruments, suggesting that every musical sound is basically a toot, whistle, plunk or boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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