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Having got this valedictory off his chest, Dr. Condon was through with Washington, where he was rated as one of the ablest scientists ever to serve the Government. He will return to private life as research chief of the Corning Glass Co., which has never been accused of subversive activity...
Emergency Lights. When the King's chest was suspected as the cause of his ill health, Sir John called in Geoffrey Marshall, 64, an expert on lung diseases, and Sir Robert Arthur Young, 80, grand old man of British chest experts. X rays by Radiologist Peter James Kerley and others showed what seemed to be a growth in the left lung. Australian-born Brigadier Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, 75, who enjoys the title of Sergeant Surgeon to the King, agreed that an operation was necessary. The doctors decided that another Welshman, Chest Surgeon Clement Price Thomas...
Giant searchlights flashed a great V in the skies, and a cheer rang out as a further bulletin announced: "The King has gained strength during the day." For the time being no more details were issued by Palace authorities or Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, the 57-year-old Welsh chest specialist who performed the operation. Britons were still as much in the dark over the exact nature of the King's illness as they had been when the doctors first spoke of "structural changes" in his lung. The nature of the operation (resection is the removal of the whole...
...comparison, the U.S. Community Chest in 1950 got $168 million, the United Jewish Appeal in the same year...
...Marquand doesn't help his hero much either. He lets Goodwin thrash around in the required course the general never studied at West Point: the facts of life. But Marquand is an old hand at arranging the facts so as to get a few things off his own chest, and Goodwin's uniform does not long conceal the fact that he is just a new variant of an old Marquand hero: the successful U.S. male, vaguely but persistently beset by discontent, his existence complicated by a nonstop war between the sexes...