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...wealth with medicine, increased it by marriage, multiplied it by business. An Alabaman who worked his way through Manhattan night schools and through Bellevue Hospital Medical School, he became first dean of the medical school of Baylor University and its professor of ophthalmology & otolaryngology (1902). His private eye, ear & throat practice became large. Twenty years ago he married Georgia Fonda Schneider, of an old, wealthy Texas family. (At Philadelphia Mrs. Gary in a black & eggshell chiffon & lace gown was reckoned the best-dressed doctor's wife. Georgie, eldest of her three daughters, was along with her.) He built and gave...
...like it already exist. Baltimore has the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute (TIME, Oct. 21, 28, 1929), generally considered the best. Philadelphia has Wills Eye Hospital; Boston, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary; Chicago, Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary; New Orleans, Touro Infirmary. Manhattan already has New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. For chief of Mr. Harkness' Medical Center Eye Institute there now was, since Dr. Edgar Steiner Thomson's death last January, one Manhattan certainty. It is always a difficult thing to rate that intangible which is medical standing. Yet by general consent Dr. Thomson, surgeon and director...
...Further additions planned by the Medical Center include institutes for research on ear, nose & throat; orthopedics; contagious diseases; tuberculosis...
Avenue one night last week. In the dark hallway a light was flashed into his face. He saw the glint of a revolver. "Stick 'em up!" a hard voice ordered. Instead, Dr. Leiva, 51 and husky, fell upon the intruder, grappled for his throat. They wrestled about. The pistol fired wildly. "Pete! Pete!" called the stranger and up from the basement came "Pete" to join the tussle. Dr. Leiva was given a hard pate-pounding with a revolver butt. Blood blinded him. He dropped to the floor. The burglars escaped out a rear entrance...
...Paris where his mother did scrubwoman's work and such. He was apprenticed to a jeweler, graduated as an engraver of medals. By the time he was 21, Engraver Doumer had studied enough nights to be graduated at the University of Paris, became Professor Doumer of mathematics. His throat would not stand the strain of lecturing, and he became Editor Doumer of the journal Voltaire. Meanwhile he had married "for love," his wife bringing no dot. But poor Husband Doumer managed to do everyone proud by becoming private secretary to Charles Floquet, Speaker of the Chamber and later Prime...