Word: greybeards
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...format, Principles of Internal Medicine (Blakiston; $12) is a weighty (8¾ Ibs.) volume, and unavoidably full of medical polysyllables. But its spirit is light, largely because of the personality of Editor Tinsley R. Harrison and the youthfulness (by medical greybeard standards) of the writing staff. Dr. Harrison, former president of the American Heart Association, is only 50; most of the associate editors and contributors range from under 30 to 45 and the average is well under...
Died. Karl Seitz, 80, greybeard of Austrian socialism, first president (1918-19) of the newborn Austrian Republic's national assembly, onetime Burgomaster of Vienna (1923-34); in Vienna. Ousted from office and thrown into jail by the Dollfuss regime in 1934, Seitz was released after ten months, but did not return to political life until 1945. He spent the last year of the war in Nazi concentration camps...