Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fall the footprints of a big unknown bird were found in the wild mountainous country near Lake Te Anau on South Island. Dr. Geoffrey Orbell, a physician from Invercargill, led an expedition to look for it. They climbed up into the wilderness close to snowline. At last Dr. Orbell saw what looked like a takahe. Battling his excitement he crouched to take a picture while the other members of the party, two men and a girl, crept cautiously around and threw a net over not one, but two takahes...
When the baseball season ends, Doc Hyland's busiest season begins. For nine weeks, ailing ballplayers have come to his St. Louis office to see the man known as "baseball's surgeon-general." Dr. Robert Hyland has a physician's professional reticence about discussing patients; besides, baseball's big winter meetings are coming up. "Some of the men are liable to be up for trading," said...
...great friendship between men 31 years apart lasted 21 years-until the day Boswell received a letter from Johnson's physician, telling how Johnson died. But for Boswell he never died. He once dreamed that Johnson came back to earth and told him how terrible it was to die. "There, sir," replied Boswell, "is the difference between us. You have got that happily over...
...permission to reprint TIME editorial copy is frequently given to newspapers, trade papers and textbook publishers, to unsponsored radio programs, non-profit charitable organizations, to digest magazines, publishers of books and anthologies, etc. In a recent month reprint permission was granted to such varied organizations and individuals as a physician who wanted to quote from three TIME Medicine stories in a college textbook he was revising; to a newspaper chain, which wanted to run Billion-Dollar Hangover (TIME, April 5) on its editorial pages; to a University of Kansas sociology professor who wanted to use the Jackie Robinson cover story...
...summer of 1800, when Dr. Benjamin Rush began his autobiography, he was 54, America's foremost physician, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and an intimate of many of the great and near great of his day. He called his autobiography Travels Through Life, and began it this...