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Milk of Magnesia. Dr. Howard McCrum Snyder, the President's 75-year-old personal physician, was sleeping in his Connecticut Avenue apartment when the bedside telephone jangled. Over the wire came the voice of Mamie Eisenhower: the President was turning and tossing with a stomachache. What should she do? Old Army Man Snyder was unworried; his patient had a record of stomach complaints. He recommended a small dose of milk of magnesia, turned off his bed light and went back to sleep...
When such a closure struck President Eisenhower early Friday morning, he felt pains in the lower quarter of his abdomen. At the first call from Mamie Eisen hower, Presidential Physician Howard McCrum Snyder, knowing his longtime patient's susceptibility to indigestion, prescribed milk of magnesia ; he figured hope fully that it could do no harm and might bring the upset to a quick end. But as Ike's discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that...
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...these reasons Mr. Moffett, who had promised early in July that his organization would be functioning in 30 days, found his plan's hung up. The campaign for new building was postponed to concentrate on modernization. Last week Alma McCrum, a Washington insurance agent, marched into a bank, signed a note, and as flashlights flickered, was given $1,200 to remodel the second floor of her home and rent it as an apartment. The housing drive...