Word: alvarez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a patient is dying-whether from inoperable cancer in the prime of life, or from a degenerative disease of old age-Dr. Walter C. Alvarez prescribes kindness in two forms: frankness and indulgence...
...Alvarez, 66, famed Mayo Clinic diagnostician, is editor of GP, monthly journal of the American Academy of General Practice. Addressing general practitioners in San Francisco last week, Alvarez counseled against lying to a dying patient or keeping up a cheerful farce for his supposed benefit. In one way or another, the patient usually finds out or guesses what his condition is, and then his miseries are increased by annoyance at the dissembling physician. Sometimes the victim is not so much appalled by impending death as he is by the prospect of leaving his wife or husband. In that case, Alvarez...
...onetime (1943-49) art critic for the Nation, Clement Greenberg feels he still has "a certain real stake" in the magazine's wellbeing. Recently, Greenberg decided that the weekly's well-being was not being furthered by its foreign policy and its foreign editor, J. Alvarez del Vayo, veteran journalist and for a time (21 months) foreign minister in Spain's Loyalist government. To the Nation's editors, Greenberg sent a 1,200-word letter charging that Del Vayo's column "invariably parallels that of Soviet propaganda." Editor-Publisher Freda Kirchwey refused to print...
Divorced. George Hearst, 46, eldest son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst and dabbler in the affairs of his father's newspaper empire; by third wife Sally Alvarez Kirkham Hearst, 40, onetime actress; after 13 years of marriage, three of separation; in Los Angeles...
...lawyers and witnesses huddled for 45 minutes in a judge's office over a heap of official papers. In Rome, where night was falling, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini sat side by side in church, their minds on the doings in Mexico. At Juarez, at last, Attorneys Javier Alvarez and Arturo Gomez-Trevino rose from the huddle, stood before Judge Raul Orozco. "Do you," the judge asked Alvarez, "as the representative of Roberto Rossellini, know if it is his will to take Ingrid Bergman as his lawful wedded wife?" The same kind of question was put to Gomez-Trevino...