Word: stifler
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Died. Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, 68, the indomitable Burma surgeon who, starting in 1922, built up a 250-bed hospital in the wild northern hill country near China, there supervising the treatment of some 17,000 patients yearly despite his own ill health (TB, dysentery, bubonic plague, beriberi) and a shoestring $75,000 annual budget, part of which came from his best-selling books (Burma Surgeon, Burma Surgeon Returns); of a heart attack; in Namhkam, Burma...
There is one authentic yawn stifler in Supper, an inspired import from the British music halls named Tessie O'Shea. The O'Shea is fat and sassy, swoops about like a bat on a binge, and pitches irresistibly into a medley of cockney nostalgia, as in Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army. Tessie O'Shea has no relation whatever to the plot of The Girl Who Came to Supper. Lucky lady...
...Burma Surgeon," Gordon Stifler Seagrave, who is just short of 64 years old, and looks older. Through four decades and many tropical illnesses he has labored at Namkham in northeastern Burma, within sight of the China border, 130 miles by the rugged Burma Road from an airport. Dr. Seagrave has made Namkham a legend of effective American aid to an underdeveloped area...