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...operating, Dr. DeBakey likes most to talk about operations. In a recent session with fellow surgeons he had a new-old story to tell. In May of 1868, he said, a mounted scout rode up to an adobe building in Trinidad, Colo., marched into the office and asked: "Dr. Beshoar, will you please be here in two hours when General Carson will arrive by ambulance. He is very...
...horse-drawn ambulance bore the immobile form of the famed Western scout Kit Carson, by then elevated to the rank of brigadier general. Beshoar examined him, noted his difficulty in speaking and moving his right arm or leg, and readily found the reason: a large, soft swelling on the left side of his neck. Beshoar knew it was a massive aneurysm of the carotid artery, and that he could do nothing about it. He did all he could to make the patient more comfortable, then referred him to the nearest Army hospital at Fort Lyon 90 miles away. There...
...DeBakey heard this hitherto unpublished story from Barren Beshoar, chief of TIME'S Denver bureau, who did much of the reporting on the cover story. He is the grandson of the Dr. Beshoar who began practice in the cattle town of Trinidad in 1865, and his great-grandfather and father were surgeons as well. After finishing the cover story, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant sent a note of congratulation to Beshoar: "TIME'S annals are full of examples of reporters who went to amazing lengths to get the facts. But I can't think of any other...
...Yosemite, bearing a 35-lb. pack, catching trout for food, and using a passing stream as his refrigerator. He likes to arrive in the hills at nightfall, sleeping out before setting forth in the morning, as the easiest way to acclimatize himself to the altitude. Denver Bureau Chief Barron Beshoar, a veteran camper, made a 2,660-mile circle of campsites gathering material, and now, to get away from all those who are getting away from it all, is setting off with a friend on a nine-day packhorse trip into primitive country in the Grand Tetons...
Atlanta Correspondent Spencer L. Davidson drove into the Pisgah National Forest at the southern end of the Appalachians; Detroit Correspondent Nick Thimmesch made the rounds in Upper Michigan's Hiawatha National Forest; Denver Bureau Chief Barren Beshoar headed into the San Juan Mountains for three days; Albuquerque Correspondent Arch Napier trekked through New Mexico's Carson National Forest. In Washington, Bureau Chief John L. Steele mopped his brow, thought warmly of his colleagues in the cool forests, and with Chief Forester Richard E. McArdle summed up the purpose of McArdle's far-reaching domain...