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Lots of Englishmen take to the U.S. like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: An Englishman Looks at the U.S. | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...look like a creamery truck when you put on a white suit? If you gain another ten pounds, will you have to wear license plates? Why look like the back of a hack? Try Dr. Quack's Slim Jim Reducing Tablets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dr. Quack | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...FELL DOWN DEAD - Virginia Perdue - Crime Club ($2). The suspenseful tale of a young bride's discovery that her handsome and plausible husband - a California quack doctor - is a proper target for murder. Exciting, convincing and an excellent job of writing, in the same bracket with Francis Iles's Before the Fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Murders | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...clearly a season for ducks...with a quack quack here and a quack quack there...and a quack quack everywhere. Yes, even Mabel, the blallard in front of the student building celebrated the leaving of the seniors by hatching out seven little ones...she evidently got her Active Duty assignment Of the sixty-six Nieman Follows, only six have left journalism for any other activity than military or emergency wartime government service. Of these six, one is executive in a shipyard, one with the Red Cross Blood Donor Service, two handling public relations of large aviation and munitions industries...

Author: By M. J. Bratton, | Title: Navy Supply Corps | 6/4/1943 | See Source »

When Dr. Kelly cured a woman of cancer with radium in 1904, he was called a quack. Years later his own cheeks were scarred where, with radium, the physician had healed himself. For the Howard A. Kelly Hospital, which he founded in 1892 next to his home on Eutaw Place, he acquired the world's largest private stock of radium-over $2,000,000 worth. Dr. Kelly remained an innovator into old age -in 1932 he wrote a book advocating electrosurgery. Paying tribute to him on his 75th birthday, Dr. Welch wrote from his deathbed: "You did more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Town Character | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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