Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nightmare trip of six days & nights, the Mortons got to Costa Mesa. There the father and Evangelist William Branham prayed over the boy. "Then," says Arthur Morton, "our prayers were answered." Reading of the Mortons' journey in a Los Angeles newspaper, an elderly Pasadena woman persuaded Brain Specialist William T. Grant to examine the boy, guaranteed hospital and medical expenses. She too had had what doctors called a "hopeless" subdural hydroma, and had been cured of it by surgery...
...Republican Senator got wind of a paper which seemed to show that not all the U.S. military had shared that view. The evidence was a secret intelligence report prepared for Army Chief of Staff George Marshall in April 1945, two months after Yalta. It was prepared in the Specialists' Section of Army G2, a high-powered team of some 50 experts, most of them West Pointers, each a lieutenant colonel or better, each a specialist on some country or region of the world. Heading the project was the late Colonel Joseph Michela. The report, said the Senator, warned emphatically...
...Installed Surgeon John Wesley Cline of San Francisco as A.M.A. president, and chose Heart Specialist Louis Hopewell Bauer of Hempstead, N.Y. as president elect for next year...
Doctor or Witch-Doctor. Oddly enough, the author who has put these incidents in perspective in a monumental (700-page) history of gynecology and obstetrics is no specialist in the field, but a medical journalist. Isaac Harvey Flack won a license to practice medicine in Manchester when he was only 21. Soon he joined the staff of the British Medical Journal, which he now edits along with a popular journal for laymen, Family Doctor. To avoid any charge of self-advertisement, Flack uses the pen-name "Harvey Graham...
...failures in Asia, the author of this book has been asking himself what went wrong. His answer: not just the blunders of a little clique in the State Department, though they proved to be tragic enough. Herrymon Maurer, for five years (1942-47) a FORTUNE editor and Asia specialist for that magazine, puts the big blame on the well-meaning, wrongheaded arrogance of the West in general. His Collision of East and West is a pithy, provocative account of how to lose friends and alienate whole peoples...