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...school surgeon, Dr. Meyer never required the hospital's army of interns to attend postgraduate classes or lectures, insisted that all young doctors fresh from college needed was "a heavy dose of experience." But the American Medical Association, whose headquarters is Chicago, believes that all interns should taper off into actual practice with at least 80 hours of medical lectures during internship. Over this point Cook County's Dr. Meyer and A.M.A.'s education secretary, Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter, wrangled often. Dr. Meyer budged not a scalpel's length. Consequently, four years ago, the A.M.A. dropped...
From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church. In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church's Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side of the altar. At the gospel side, flanked by taper bearers and the thurifer, Pastor Robert Mohrhardt chanted: "Make not My Father's house an house of merchandise...
Quebec-born, of a French Canadian mother and an Irish engineer father, ruddy, grey-maned John B. is 45, lives comfortably in suburban Larchmont, N. Y. plans to taper off on radio work to devote his time to developing a fictional sleuth to succeed Chesterton's Father Brown...
...lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...
...religious service for his charges only because the sheriff commanded him to in writing. When Bishop William White and Dr. William Rogers arrived at the jail, they found a number of convicts huddled before an improvised pulpit, beside which stood a formidable cannon whose gunner had lighted a taper, ready to fire at the slightest sign of trouble...