Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barn one early evening last week, the Brown Swiss cow was calving for the first time. A small knot of anxious men stood near by. Farm Manager Ivan Feaster, becoming alarmed at the slow process of birth, raced off to call a veterinarian. He was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the barn: "It's all right, Ivan," yelled Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, "don't bother to call." In the stall, the mother cow licked the quivering body of her offspring, a fine bull calf, while the President of the U.S. looked on in beaming approval...
...calf's nose was not running, Joe figured it might have a cold, or, worse yet, be "one of them that just never does eat like he oughta." With the help of his old high-school vocational agriculture teacher, who substitutes in a poor county for a graduate veterinarian, Joe took the steer's temperature, found it four degrees above the normal of 101° Fahrenheit. He and the teacher purged the calf with laxative, hypoed it with penicillin, and in a few days it was back with the other young feeders...
...Feet. In Pasadena, Calif., Veterinarian Dr. Ivan Peterson reported that all 30 of his resident dogs had slumbered soundly while a thief broke into the office escaped with...
...date, Beagleville has not been attacked by anti-vivisectionists. One reason may be that most of the beagles are healthy and happy. They get good food from a well-equipped dog kitchen, enjoy clean exercise runs heated by steam pipes. A veterinarian and six assistants treat the dogs with antibiotics whenever infection threatens. By the time the man with the needle comes round to give them their radioactive injection, they have much that is pleasant to remember. Says Dr. John Z. Bowers, head of Beagleville: "These pups grow to adulthood under conditions far better than most beagles enjoy...
...Hollywood, dogs are naturally more nervous than dogs in other places. The trouble, says Dr. Stanley Cooper, a busy Hollywood veterinarian, is that movie pets are living under the strain of Cinema-Scope and wide-screen tension. Last week, while waiting for Comic Jerry Lewis' poodle to come out of a coma. Cooper, a kindly, 36-year-old man, explained some of his theories...