Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Too Different. A survey conducted by the Health Insurance Council shows that companies have far too many different ways of inquiring about diagnosis (26), present status (34) and treatment prescribed (46). Doctors have long sought simplified, standardized forms (some have even printed their own), but most insurance companies refuse to...
Was Al Capp at last getting his comeuppance? What did he think of the Saunders-Ernst treatment? Said he: "Unpardonable slander. Something disgraceful, humiliating." Then Capp took his tongue out of his cheek and exposed the feud (sob!) as a hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in...
The last years of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor, were filled with riches and honors; he lived to see a statue of himself erected in Central Park. But the "failure" of his painting hopes never ceased to rankle. "Alas," the artist-inventor wrote to his friend Cooper, "the very name...
Bagged in Manhattan by a London Sunday Dispatch interviewer, sad-eyed old Satirist Aldous Huxley, 63, rhapsodized about his Hollywood hermitage, where "foxes, possum, raccoons, even coyotes, are always trotting across my terrace," lamented the pointless counterpoint of the brave new world. On Manhattan: "The psychological cost of living is...
¶ Laura MacDanald, aged 20 months, left hospital in Darby, Pa. in good condition after a unique operation to combat the ravages of acute leukemia, which threatened her with early death. Laura is one of identical twins. When her disease became resistant to drug treatment, doctors gave her a massive...