Word: physician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green, the demagogic Atlanta physician, had branched out and set up a Klavern of 25 or 30 members in the growing cotton town of Thomson (pop. 5,000), Ga. Last week an ad, signed by 104 residents of Thomson (including most of the members of the city council and the chief of police), appeared in the town's weekly newspaper, the McDuffie Progress. What Thomson's leading citizens had to say was that their Ku Klux neighbors had better put away their bed sheets...
...test was devised by the association's president, Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 47, Canadian-born surgeon who developed the "Huggins operation" (castration) for advanced cancer of the prostate. Working with him at the University of Chicago were Physician Gerald M. Miller and Organic Chemist Elwood V. Jensen. With scientific hedging, Dr. Huggins called it "for all practical purposes a simple, cheap and reasonably sure test for cancer." He added that his report pulled together work done by others since 1932, and he hoped that it would not be treated as "sensational." If later work backs up the first tests...
Married. Helen ("Helenita") Kleberg, 21, blonde daughter of Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' huge, fabulous King Ranch (976,000 acres, 390 oil wells, 3,000 horses, including Derby Winner Assault); and Dr. John Deaver Alexander, 25, staff physician at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; in Kingsville...
...really Ma Barker's only failure. She could barely read or write, but she taught all her boys to rob and kill and keep their mouths shut. She loved them all with a twisted, violent affection, but she was quite capable of coldly permitting a crooked, drunken physician to slash her favorite Freddie's fingers in a vain effort to alter his fingerprints...
...first Protestant missionaries in Korea was an Underwood-Presbyterian Horace Grant Underwood, of the typewriter family. He went out to the Orient in 1885, married a medical missionary who became royal physician to Korea's Queen Min. In his buttoned-up black coat and white tie, doughty Dr. Underwood strode coolly through cholera epidemics and equally formidable Korean political squabbles. He raised his son, Horace Horton Underwood, to labor in the same vineyard...