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Although there were M.D.s (including surgeons) on Northwestern's team, first comments by other surgeons on Dr. Graber's paper were sharply critical. Bad results from early operations, they argued, were uncommon, and happened because the surgeon was not as skillful as he should have been. Apparently it would take years-until many more children treated by Northwestern's method have reached jaw-growth maturity-for the results of the two systems to be compared, and the argument settled...
...bought some firearms and learned to use them, she became the village hunter and kept the whole area in meat, shooting game as big as hippopotamus. She knew nothing about surgery, but she studied old medical textbooks and, assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient supplies, together they tended the sick over an enormous...
...Jackie Robinson himself, playing the title role. Burdened with some lines and situations that would weigh heavily on a professional actor, he gives a remarkably natural performance. Whatever his shortcomings as an actor, his playing mirrors not only a superb athlete but an earnest, thoroughly likable young man of uncommon moral stamina...
Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, will travel to Sweden next week to receive an honorary degree and witness an uncommon academic ceremony at the University of Upsala...
...Lady's Not for Burning, by Christopher Fry. A play in verse that tells in fresh, shining language of a witch hunt in 15th Century England and of two triumphant lovers. An uncommon combination of bright theater and fine reading (TIME, April...