Word: royals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were three contenders for the post of chief surgeon at the new Hôtel-Dieu in Sorel. One, a native of Quebec, was licensed long ago by the provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons, had served overseas in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. The second, Dr. Georges Montel, a native of France, got a quickie license from the college only last September. He also had a war record: he served the Vichy government. The third, a local doctor pinch-hitting as head surgeon, was brushed aside. Last month the Sorel hospital turned down the veteran, hired Collaborator...
Burton, a graduate of St. John's College in Oxford, is preparing for a career as an educator. During the war, he served as a commissioned officer with the British Royal Artillery. Captured in the fall of Singapore, he worked on the Siam-Burma railway and helped to run a camp library and book repair shop while a prissier of the Japanese. After his repatriation in 1945 he wrote a book about his war experiences entitled "In the Shadow...
...Edinburgh. Much more interesting was the matter of a name. On Tuesday Philip had to register his son for a national identity card by number only. At the risk of a ?2 fine imposed by law on anyone not registering a child's name within 42 days, the royal infant's full name would not be decided upon until just before his baptism at Sandringham at Christmas time...
Mozart: Concerto No. 4, K. 218 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Heifetz is too often sleek where cleanliness, clarity and simplicity are called for. Recording: good...
...Team. In the institute's eight-story stone building on the slope of Mount Royal, Dr. Wilder Penfield, the director and one of the world's top brain specialists, set to work with his staff. Explained Dr. Penfield to Elizabeth's mother: "This problem can only be solved by teamwork. You can't hope to win nowadays by any other method...