Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spokesman for the group was New York's Democratic Congressman Joseph L. Pfeifer, a Brooklyn surgeon. When an impatient Spanish reporter in Madrid asked when the U.S. was going to stop talking and start doing something about Spain, Pfeifer crisply ticked off some hard facts of U.S. political life: the remarks of a few itinerant Congressmen did not mean that the U.S. as a whole was possessed of any overwhelming desire to take Dictator Franco back into the family. A committee staff member, C. B. Marshall, used stronger words: "We give loans only to governments who represent their people...
Because the risks are generally considered too great, most surgeons shy away from operating on old people. So when Manhattan-born, European-trained (University of Budapest) Dr. John Toma was appointed attending surgeon for the 500 residents of two California homes for old folks, he knew that his job would not be an easy...
...Surgeon Toma has done his operations at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, some distance from the homes. Next month a new 59-bed, $500,000 hospital at Pacific Home will be dedicated by Governor Earl Warren and U.C.L.A.'s Provost Clarence Dykstra. Built by the contributions of the wealthy residents of Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, Pacific Home Memorial Hospital will be complete with laboratory, X-ray machines and the latest in surgical gadgets...
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...
...Nicholson (TIME, Dec. 13) and mother of a 20-year-old son and 15-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy), has returned to the operating theater many times. In mask and gown she stood quietly observant behind doctors and nurses, pressing forward when one of her surgeon friends offered her a closer look. Back in her peaceful studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, she transferred her sharp-eyed observations to canvas...