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Into the-amphitheater of New Orleans' old and vast (1,800-bed) Charity Hospital * stepped a trim figure with a calmly confident air: Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner, then 31, newly appointed professor of surgery at Tulane University. He had ideas about how to teach diagnosis and surgery to medical students. From an adjoining examining room the first student-victim stepped in. He had just spent half an hour worriedly examining a patient. Now Professor Ochsner called for his diagnosis...
...steel frames had just been placed over the windows. Marion Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hughes went in to talk about the HEW budget. Massachusetts' wise, cowlicked Representative Joe Martin, 71, Republican leader of the House, and California's pin-neat, trim (down 25 Ibs. to 208) William Knowland, minority leader of the Senate, went in for separate conferences on legislation, with incidental attention to politics. Each talked to the President about what Martin called the "headlights" of the Administration's program for the next session of Congress, including highways, school...
...trim queen of modern U.S. racing yachts, Bolero, a 73½ft. yawl seldom out of first place in her class, was sold by the New York Yacht Club's former commodore, salty Multimillionaire John Nicholas Brown (once renowned as "the world's richest baby"), to boat-loving Swedish Shipping Magnate Sven Salen, whose line of six-meter yachts (all christened Maybe) is a perennial threat in Eastern U.S. sailing contests. Price paid for Bolero, Class A winner of the 1950 and 1954 Newport-to-Bermuda races, was undisclosed. Her original cost...
...traffic there is the sound of millions of shuffling feet, never the click of a woman's shoe. Occasionally, there is a whiff of rank perfume (called Kremlin and sold in bottles shaped like the Spassky clock tower), but no man turns for another glimpse of a trim ankle. Lovers do not stroll hand in hand in Moscow. There is no searching of faces, and a person looked at will turn away. Gorky Street may be as crowded as Fifth Avenue at lunchtime, but there is little or no window shopping, and there are always drunks .feeling their...
...novelist's tactic is to take each of the mourners and riddle them with small shot. The corpse is that of Joseph Benjamin Chapin, and with the possible exception of the hero of Trollope's John Caldigate, he is the most greyly dull character to rear his trim, neat, empty head into modern literature...