Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of one of World War II's most satisfying turnabouts came out last week. Its hero is Dr. Theodore Stevenson, 41, doctor at Manila's Santo Tomás internment camp until the Japanese threw him into Bilibid prison for insisting on the word "malnutrition" on an internee's death certificate (TIME...
...General strode inside. He poked through jammed corridors and rooms, grimly inspected the ravages of slow star vation. He talked with Dr. Theodore Stevenson. Presbyterian medical mission ary who had been the camp doctor. Dr. Stevenson had been jailed by the Japs be cause he refused to change death certifi cates on which he had boldly stated the contributing cause of death as "malnutrition." To BiIibid. As General MacArthur left Santo Tomas, maimed veterans hobbled toward him to salute, and some to touch his uniform. Women embraced him; one kissed him on the cheek. He went on to Bilibid. There...
Trying something new, the Board last week placed an initial order for 600,000 new books for public-school children (sample authors: Mark Twain, Stevenson, Dickens, O. Henry) with eye-catching illustrations drawn mostly by the children themselves. These will be distributed free to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade pupils, to keep for their very...
Died. Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, 68, longtime sharer of Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1891, ailing, child-loving Author Stevenson learned from the U.S. Land Commissioner on Samoa, Henry Clay Ide, that because his daughter Anne was born on Christmas, she never got any birthday presents. Stevenson formally deeded his birthday (Nov. 13) to the child, stipulated that she celebrate the occasion "by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verse . . .", or forfeit,the anniversary rights to the President...
Meanwhile Mac Wallace handed the Governor an ultimatum: Coke Stevenson must telegraph each Regent requesting that he explain in open meeting the basis of the Board's decision. If not, the students would "sit down" on the Capitol lawn. Said Coke, "I've been around the campfire long enough to know you can't drink coffee out of a boiling...