Word: physician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, country home of British Prime Ministers since 1917. Opened briefly last week to newsmen for the first time, Chequers, as Harold Macmillan said, is "a good place to work and a good place to rest." Dwight Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan did both, at one point using Presidential Physician Howard Snyder as their range pole for golf shots on Chequers' broad lawns, at other times going behind closed doors for serious talks...
Better Than Father. Like most pioneers in psychoanalysis, Jones claims uncanny recollection of earliest childhood. He was only three, he says, when he decided to become a physician. This was when the village doctor delivered his younger sister: "It was plain to me that he was a very exalted person who could bring the results of my father's misdeeds to a happy issue. From that moment, since a doctor was superior even to a father, I resolved to become one." A precocious youth, he made it at 21, emulated his doctor-idol figure by delivering a thousand babies...
Typewriter Therapy. In the five years since Dienbienphu's fall, high-strung Tom Dooley gained international prominence. He was so appalled by the wretchedness of the 610,000 refugees who passed through his camp that a physician friend advised him to act out his hostilities on a typewriter. The result was Deliver Us from Evil, a 1955 bestseller...
...doctor, the patients and the treatment given at the Clinique Générale la Prairie, overlooking Switzerland's Lake Geneva near Montreux, are all remarkable. The physician is Dr. Paul Niehans, '77 (though he looks more like 60), who declares: "I reject nine out of ten would-be patients. I choose persons who represent a certain value to the world by their individual prominence." Among the chosen have been the late Pope Pius XII and the Imam of Yemen (treated in Rome), the late King Ibn Saud, Painter Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson, the King...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence(l) 3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell...