Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Tucker Fisher. Perhaps it was his background. Fisher spent the best years of his boyhood in the saddle herding cattle on an Illinois farm, did not learn to read & write until he was 13, dropped out of M.I.T., made a fortune in San Diego real estate, became a veterinarian, and decided not to practice the profession when a proper Bostonian lady refused to marry a "horse doctor." So Fisher went to Harvard, got his M.D. and became a mind doctor...
...Executive Editor Ralph McGill buckled down to work 13 years ago to drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Georgia. The Constitution repeatedly headlined hooded assault and fiery cross burnings, prodded lethargic cops into jailing several of the ringleaders, kept up a constant drumfire of ridicule. When Indiana Veterinarian James A. Colescott was chosen Imperial Wizard of the Klan, Editor McGill wrote: "For the first time the Klan has chosen a proper man, a veterinarian skilled in dealing with dumb animals...
Safely on the ground, the pilot went back for a look at his dead horse. Canastos was not dead, just subdued. In Panama last week, after shots of penicillin, Canastos was eating well and catching up on his rest. The veterinarian planned to remove the slugs, thought Canastos would run again. In Lima, horse fans remembered that Canastos always was a stayer...
...rose a fat 40,000. But there was one frustration. Lest the heavy-handed authorities be offended, La Razoón's editors had prudently deleted some details. Days after La Razoón broke the story, the fearless, independent La Prensa reported: "Domingo Massolo was not a veterinarian, as previously announced. He was an army chaplain...
...father of five daughters, Perkins became a mild misogynist in his dealings with fussy "lady writers" and used to complain wryly of their demands. One of them, whose anonymity he carefully preserved, telephoned him once to say that her cat John Keats was dying and could Perkins get a veterinarian? Another lady author of a book on. Swedish massage horrified him by asking him "just to feel of the muscles of my abdomen...