"Doctor Robert" is a song by The Beatles released on the album Revolver in the United Kingdom and on Yesterday and Today in the United States. The song was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney^[1]. It was recorded in seven takes on 17 April 1966 with vocals overdubbed 19 April.^[2] Lennon said that he was Doctor Robert: "I was the one who carried all the pills on tour ... in the early days".^[3]

Musical characteristics[link]

The song is in the key of A major, though some consider the key center is B ^[4] The musical arrangement has staggered layering, the backing vocals starting in the second verse, the lead guitar just before the bridge while the bridge itself has added harmonium and extra vocals mixed. John's lead is automatically double tracked with each of the two slightly-out-of-phase tracks split onto separate stereo channels; creating a surrealistic effect supporting the lyric about drug use.^[5] An interesting feature is the suitably 'blissful' modulation (on "well, well well you're feeling fine") to the key of B on the bridge via an F#7 pivot chord (VI7 in the old key of A and V7 in the new key of B) ^[6]

Personnel[link]

• John Lennon - double-tracked lead vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonium
• Paul McCartney - bass guitar, harmony vocal
• George Harrison - double-tracked lead guitar, maracas
• Ringo Starr - drums

Personnel per Ian McDonald.^[7]

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Doctor Robert"

Robert E. Beck Jr. (September 2, 1944 – May 24, 2008) was a zoologist and conservationist, who worked to save Guam's indigenous native birds from 1982 to 2003.^[1] Beck championed the fight to save Guam's native birds, such as the Mariana Crow, Rufous Fantail, Guam Flycatcher, Marianas kingfisher and the Guam Rail, known locally as ko'ko' in Chamorro, which are under the extreme threat of extinction due to the non-native brown tree snake and habitat loss.^[1] The Rufous Fantail and the Guam Flycatcher listed above are now extinct in the wild in their native Guam.^[1] However, the captive and wild populations of the Mariana Crow, Guam rail and the Micronesian kingfisher have increased, due in large part to conservation efforts by Beck.^[1]

Early life[link]

Bob Beck was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on September 2, 1944.^[2] His parents were Robert E. Beck Sr. and Ruth Powles Beck.^[2] Beck graduated from Hagerstown High School in 1962. He obtained his bachelor's degree in education with a concentration in zoology from the University of Maryland.^[2] He completed his master's degree in zoology with an emphasis on genetics and population biology at the University of Maryland, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Tennessee.^[2] He started his career as a school teacher in the Montgomery County, Maryland, public school system.^[2]

Guamanian bird conservation[link]

Beck moved to Guam in 1974 and initially worked as a school teacher for several years.^[2] He eventually left teaching to become a zoologist with the Guam Department of Agriculture, Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources.^[2]

Guam Rail

Beck was considered to be instrumental in capturing the remaining native birds on Guam, such as the Guam rail or kingfisher, whose numbers had been decimated due to the accidental introduction of the brown tree snake.^[1] Beck, a former Guamanian Department of Agriculture Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources wildlife supervisor, established captive breeding programs on Guam.^[1] For example, Beck established a stable breeding population of Guam rails, or ko'ko', in captivity and released them on the neighboring island of Rota, in the Northern Mariana Islands.^[1] Wildlife biologist Gary Wiles was quoted in the Pacific Daily News as crediting Beck for saving the species, "Bob was one of the first to begin organizing catching the birds so they could be brought into captivity, held there and bred. He started a captive population. We still have Guam rails today because of his efforts."^[1]

Beck was also a driving force for the establishment of captive breeding programs for native Guam rails in zoos throughout the United States.^[1] The Guam rail breeding program initially began at just three zoos, the Bronx Zoo, the Philadelphia Zoo and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. .^[1] However, the program has been expanded to include seventeen zoos nationwide, including the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans^[1] and the San Diego Zoo.^[2] There are now over 120 individual Guam rails at the program's facilities on Guam and thirty-five Guam rails on the mainland United States.^[1]

Bob Beck stayed on Guam and remained involved in his programs following his retirement in 2003.^[1] He died in Tamuning, Guam, on May 24, 2008 at the age of 63.^[1][2] He was married to his wife, Patricia Rossett, from 1978 until 1992.^[2] The couple had two children, Erik R. Beck and Joanna R. Beck.^[2]

References[link]

Robert Morse
photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1958
Born	(1931-05-18) May 18, 1931 (age 81) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Actor/Singer
Years active	1954–present
Spouse	Carol Ann D'Andreá (1961-1981) Elizabeth Roberts (1989-present)

Robert Morse (born May 18, 1931) is an American actor and singer. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and plays on Broadway. He has also acted in movies and television shows. His best known role is that of J. Pierrepont Finch in the 1961 Broadway musical, and 1967 film How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He is currently known for his recurring role as Bertram Cooper on the show Mad Men.

Early life[link]

Morse was born on May 18, 1931 in Newton, Massachusetts. After serving in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, Morse appeared on Broadway as an actor.

Career[link]

He created the role of Barnaby in The Matchmaker on Broadway in 1955 opposite Ruth Gordon and reprised the role in the 1958 film adaptation, this time opposite Shirley Booth. That same year, he won the Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for Say, Darling. Morse had to lobby David Merrick for a role in Take Me Along, as there was a question if he could, at 28, play a convincing 16 year old. He could and did. What was considered the final step toward full stardom was his performance as J. Pierrepont Finch in the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying it won him the Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical in 1962.^[1] He also starred in the 1967 movie version

In 1964, Morse co-starred in the comedy Quick, Before It Melts. In 1965, Morse appeared in the black comedy The Loved One, a movie based on the Evelyn Waugh novel that satirized the funeral business in Los Angeles, in particular the Forest Lawn Cemetery. In 1967, he co-starred in A Guide for the Married Man opposite Walter Matthau. In 1968, he appeared in the comedy Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? opposite Doris Day. In the same year, he appeared in the television series That's Life, which attempted to blend the musical genre with a situation comedy centered on newlyweds "Robert" and "Gloria" (played by E. J. Peaker).^[2]

Morse was in the original Broadway cast of Sugar, a 1972 musical stage adaptation of Some Like It Hot, for which he was nominated for another Tony. He won a Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for his portrayal of Truman Capote in Tru (1989). In 1992, he recreated his performance for the PBS series American Playhouse and won the Emmy Award as Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special. In 2002, Morse was cast in the role of The Wizard in the San Francisco run of the musical Wicked, but quit the show before it opened on Broadway. He was replaced by Joel Grey.^[3]

Morse joined other performers, including Marlo Thomas, in creating the 1972 Free to Be... You and Me children's album.

He also provided the voice for the cartoon character Howler in Hanna Barbera's Pound Puppies. Another famous role he played was Jack in the 1979 animated Rankin/Bass special Jack Frost. In The First Easter Rabbit,yet another Rankin/Bass Production, he was the voice of the main character, Stuffy. Morse has appeared in numerous TV shows, beginning in 1955 with the soap opera The Secret Storm and including mysteries, comedies, and variety shows. He had featured roles in the 1993 miniseries Wild Palms and the 2000 medical drama City of Angels. In 1995, Robert portrayed Grandpa in the Fox telefilm Here Come the Munsters.

Beginning in 2007, Morse took on a recurring role in the AMC dramatic series Mad Men as Bertram Cooper, a partner in the advertising agency Sterling Cooper, for which role he was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding guest actor in 2008, 2010 and again in 2011.

Personal life[link]

Morse has married twice and has five children.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Robert Morse at the Internet Broadway Database
• Robert Morse at the Internet Movie Database

Robert H. Lustig, MD is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).^[1] He is nationally recognized in the field of neuroendocrinology, with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system.^[2] He has a special interest in childhood obesity.^[2] He has become publicly notable through his efforts to draw attention to the effects that the natural sugar fructose can have on human and especially children's health if consumed in large amounts.^[3] On May 26, 2009, Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” which was posted on YouTube the following July and has become a viral success with over nearly 2.5 million viewings (as of Jun 2, 2012).^[3] In this lecture, Lustig notably calls fructose a "poison" and compares its metabolic effects with those of ethanol. Lustig is particularly critical of the widespread use of high-fructose corn syrup in the United States.

Career[link]

Lustig grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.^[4] He obtained his bachelors degree from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980.^[5] From there, he spent six years as a research associate in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University.^[5] He performed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital, and his clinical fellowship at UCSF which he joined in 1984.^[1][2]

He has authored over 85 research articles and 45 chapters. He is the former Chairman of the Obesity Task Force of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task force of The Endocrine Society, and on the Steering Committee of the International Endocrine Alliance to Combat Obesity.^[1][5]

See also[link]

Sugar Blues - book with a similar theme and Low Blood Sugar and You by Carlton Fredericks 1969

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sugar: The Bitter Truth UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public 7/2009 given by Dr. Lustig , Health and Medicine, Show ID: 16717. Accessed April 2011 (1 hour 30 mins)

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