Word: specialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George Morris Dorrance, 72, surgeon and soup magnate (Campbell's board chairman), socialite, specialist in cancer research, early plastic surgeon, originator (during treatment of World War I casualties) of an operative technique that has helped children born with cleft palates to speak more clearly; in Philadelphia...
...outstanding defensive linebacker for two seasons under Art Valpey, succeeds Howle Houston as captain. He breaks a string of three consecutive married captains and his election returns Harvard to the tradition of backfield captains, which has been broken only three times since 1929. Isenberg is probably the first defensive specialist to be elected captain...
...eastern European culture was focused mainly on Russian. But during the past two years, the Slavic Department, under the Chairmanship of Professor Karpovich, has expanded to become one of the centers of Slavic studies in the country. With the arrival this fall of two eminent scholars, Professor R. Jakobson--specialist in Slavic languages and civilization, and Dr. D. I. Cizovsky--distinguished for his work in Europe on philosophy and literature, the Department's program has been extended to include studies touching most of the Slavic nations. Correspondingly, the steadily increasing number of undergraduates and advanced students in eastern European courses...
Working in a similar field was a 68-year-old Swiss physiologist, Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess, director of Zurich University's Physiological Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...
Died. Sir Maurice Alan Cassidy, 69, heart specialist and physician to three British kings (George V, Edward VIII, George VI); of complications following an auto accident last April; in London...