Word: calver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 29 years "attending physician" to Congress, Dr. George Calver, 69, summed up the greatest heart-tiring hazards to his 531 charges: 1) constituents who ply their Congressman or Senator with heavy dinners, 2) Washington hostesses who stuff him with rich viands, 3) filibustering. Of the last hazard Dr. Calver said: "I have been known to make people stop speaking." His filibuster buster: he sends one of the orator's colleagues to deliver a casual warning: "Dr. Calver is watching you, and you're going...
Others elected were James E. Bacon, of Wilmett, Illinois and Winthrop House; Richard C. Farrington, of Piae Orchard, Connecticut and Leverett House; Gim P. Fong, of Newton; Calver C. Groton, of Westerley, Rhode-Island and Lowell House; John B. Manning, of Worcester and Winthrop House; Ira H. Peterman, of Yonkers, New York and Dunster House; Costas C. Rodis, of Nashua, New Hampshire and Kirkland House; Ralph F. Scalera, of Midland, Pennsylvania and Winthrop House; and Robert L. Wiley, of St. Paul, Wisconsin and Lowell House...
...society had done. "Lick 'em like a custard! They're crucifying a wonderful man-a genius." By no coincidence, Tobey is one of Lincoln's patients; he insists on getting the bacteriophage treatment three or four times a week in the office of Capitol Physician George Calver. He says that it has considerably reduced his high blood pressure...