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...record of Senator Burton Kendall ("Burt") Wheeler of Montana is as follows...
...morning, close on the heels of his colleague, Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's own doctor, roared away from London in a chartered plane. At a bedside in Paris Britain's royal physicians met, consulted, pronounced Mrs. Margaret Shenberg Mayer, wife of U. S. Cinemagnate Louis Burt Mayer, ill of double pneumonia...
Soon Mr. Fox saw Mr. Huston again. This time Mr. Huston asked him if he knew Louis Burt Mayer. Since Louis Mayer, besides being a potent California Republican, was also the Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (which Mr. Fox was absorbing), Mr. Fox knew him very well. He also knew that Mr. Mayer did not approve of the terms of the Loew sale. So Mr. Fox looked up Mr. Mayer...
Last week, when 318 signatures had been obtained, the women presented to Britain's General Medical Council a petition for the professional reinstatement of Dr. Burt-White. Cried Mrs. Pottesman, whom he had cured of a rare disease: "All those who have signed have been brought through dangerous illnesses by Dr. Burt-White. There are hundreds of women whom he alone could cure. It is our business to see that his services to womankind are not lost...
...practitioners with attractive lady patients pricked up their ears. Last year young Dr. Burt-White, then head house surgeon of great St. Bartholomew's Hospital, winner of two scientific prizes for his work on puerperal sepsis, was dropped from the medical register for "secret and improper association with a married woman patient." Unlike the disgraced British doctors of Somerset Maugham and other tropical romancers, he did not fly to a torrid oblivion of drink, cynicism and "mammy-palaver." Since his expulsion Dr. Burt-White has been studying...