Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparatus while he was director of the Medical School's photographic laboratories. Leaving Yale, the well-to-do young Armenian built a model of the x-ray observation ap paratus and as soon as he saw that it worked, disassembled it. Last week he regretted his act. when Surgeon William Rose of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center asked permission to use the Simjian device first. Mr. Simjian, about to sail for England, promised to build another in autumn...
...Confederate surgeon who left South Carolina after the carpet bag regime to teach hydrotherapy at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, young Baruch accompanied his father to New York, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1889. His first notable job was with A. A. Housman & Co., stockbrokers. Thereafter Baruch's business was that of making money by his wits in Wall Street. His teachers and friends were rugged individualists of famed memory: James Keene, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Henry Huddleston Rogers...
...screen version of the play which won the Pulitzer Prize this year and is still playing in New York, "Men in White". Torn between conflicting obligations Dr. Furguson, played by Clark Gable, is faced with the problem of continuing what promises to be a brilliant career as a surgeon or "riding" to oblivion in a limousine" with the pretty face and figure of Myrna Loy at this side. Gable turns in an adequate performance and is decidedly better than he has been in some of his earlier pictures. Myrna Loy finds it difficult to register emotion convincingly and is much...
...College (Salem, Va.) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Federal Coordinate of Transportation Joseph B. Eastman . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Livingston Farrand of Cornell . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. President-elect Dixon Ryan Fox . . . . . . L.H.D. Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Board . . . . . . . . LL.D. Senator Cameron Morrison of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin of Rockefeller Institute...
Congress last week decided to thwart the increasing tendency of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines to go crazy. The Senate passed a House bill forbidding the three services to keep an officer or enlisted man on duty in the tropics and certain foreign stations longer than two years. Surgeon General Robert Urie Patterson of the Army pleaded before a Senate committee for the two year restriction. About 500 men are being discharged from the Army each year because of mental derangements. Most common cause is dementia praecox. The large majority of cases arise in the Army's overseas...