Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of Hippocrates for the relief of indigestion, but Scientist Doll has little faith in old wives' remedies. Still, he could not forget that digitalis, the first useful drug for heart disease, came from an old wives' brew of foxglove, and he remembered that a Dutch pharmacist had made a reputation during World War II selling a licorice concoction for ulcers. Dr. Doll decided that there was no harm in trying...
...Unmistakable Sound. On the Shalom (Peace), just three hours out of New York on a Caribbean cruise, New York Pharmacist Stephen Tannenbaum and his wife Barbara were among the late-stayers at a Thanksgiving Eve party. Shortly after 2 a.m., they were dancing the cha cha cha in one of the ship's ballrooms when they were thrown to the floor and heard that horrifying dissonance-unmistakable to anyone-that means a collision at sea. On the Stolt Dagali (which means "Pride of Dagali," a Norwegian town), bound for Newark with a crew of 43 and a cargo...
...course, a change in image doesn't remake the man; Humphrey is still somewhat the energetic, folksy, good humored Hubert we always knew. But there is a new reserve about him, one might say a sense of destiny, now that a humble pharmacist's son has nearly attained the second highest office in the land. One suspects that in his mind's eye Humphrey no longer sees himself solely as the populist-progressive crusader for the downtrodden, but as the Great Articulator for the Great Politician, the premier national statesman. When his audience snickered at a reference to turning...
There, the son of a South Dakota druggist toured the university school of pharmacy, donned a white pharmacist's jacket to pose for pictures, and scrawled on a prescription pad thrust into his hand by an autograph-hunting student the words "Vote Democratic...
...rich Oklahoma, has reservations about the Civil Rights Act, opposes federal aid to education, favors minimal federal controls in agriculture. To the argument that a success on the gridiron might not suffice for achievement in the U.S. Senate, Wilkinson says: "Lyndon Johnson was a schoolteacher, Hubert Humphrey a pharmacist. I think a football coach can play that game. As athletic director at Oklahoma University I managed a budget of $1.6 million...