Word: antivivisectionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed international dancer of World War I, pooh-poohed Chicago's current rabies epidemic, which is so grave that Illinois authorities have ordered all pet dogs and cats inoculated, all strays destroyed. Not unduly upset by the fact that 313 Chicagoans were bitten in four days last week, Antivivisectionist Castle (long egged on by the Hearst press), wanted pet owners to know that anti-rabies shots "would paralyze the hind legs of dogs." Though claiming to be no "damn fool," Irene, who in more than 25 years of running animal shelters has prided herself on an average of three...
...Ironically, Hearst's doctor did advance heart research by experiments on dogs (TIME, March 28, 1949). But Antivivisectionist Hearst, whose fees helped pay for the project, was never told. *For producing, directing and starring in the motion picture of the same name, a satire on the life of The Chief, Orson Welles suffered the nearest thing to excommunication that Mr. Hearst could inflict. For years the offending genius could not be mentioned at all in Hearst-papers...
...Angeles, such shenanigans were an old story. Antivivisectionist campaigns had denied an adequate supply of pound animals to researchers, and work was slowed in some of the most advanced research-much of it (for the Atomic Energy Commission) into the effects of radiation. Dr. Harry Goldblatt, who was shot at in 1948 by a fanatic dog-lover, was also hamstrung in his efforts to develop an artificial heart-lung apparatus...
...cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, ailing old (87) Publisher William Randolph Hearst spotted a story in his Los Angeles Examiner that set his antivivisectionist blood aboil. Los Angeles medical researchers, he read, were getting stray animals from the city pound under a wartime ordinance permitting their use for "military purposes," and were using them for medical experiments. Hearst set the Examiner off in full cry. With banner headlines and cartoons depicting the "horrors" of vivisection, the Examiner demanded that the ordinance be repealed and that all vivisection in the area be stopped...