Word: physician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kansas. Outside Hollywood, only one U. S. literary man appeared in the Treasury Department's list of 1937's highest salaried citizens: Dr. Arthur Hertzler, author of the bucolic, best-selling tribute to the struggling country physician, The Horse and Buggy Doctor. Highest salaried man in Kansas in 1937, Dr. Hertzler was president of the Halstead Hospital Association...
Last week, as post-war recriminations in Spain became more & more bitter, a physician named Jiniero Vidal swore to a blood-curdling story...
Turnabout. Oliver St. John Gogarty is an Irish physician, Senator, wit, poet and the original of Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses. His autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke...
Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...
...small, dingy Paris room, where dregs of a stormy sunset filtered through the window, a young physician named Antoine Thibault found three people: a doctor, younger and more inexperienced than himself, a curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow...