Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against coach Cooney Weiland's three strong forward lines, the Tigers will send one top-notch scorer in John Cook and a fine goalie in Bill Hill. Cook has been a unanimous All-Ivy selection the past two years and needs only one more goal to set a new Princeton scoring record...
...Gassman and accomplice sit at separate tables in a swell restaurant. Suddenly the accomplice doubles up and cries out as if in abdominal pain. The manager, alarmed and embarrassed, hurries him into the kitchen. The crook moans louder and curses the cook for poisoning him. At that point, Gassman strides into the kitchen and declares: "I am a doctor!" He examines the patient, says he really does have food poisoning, starts to phone the health department. "Don't," the manager begs him. "Don't ruin me! I'll do anything you ask!" The "doctor" hesitates significantly, then...
...written his landlady's phone number in a last-minute postscript, and Dr. Cook got a long-distance call through with no delay. A maid answered. Dr. Cook asked her to go out to Bob and Shari's little cottage and call his son to the phone. When the maid returned and told Dr. Cook she could not rouse anybody, he shouted back at her: "Go out there and break in a window...
...aroused landlady joined the maid and checked the cottage. "I saw them lying in the bed," she reported to Dr. Cook. "They were sweating up a storm." Dr. Cook roared back: "Haven't you got in the house yet?" The landlady told Dr. Cook to hang up so she could get the maid to call the fire department. Then she grabbed a hammer herself. She .broke a small pane in the door and reached in to release the latch. Intense heat blasted into her face. "It was just like opening the door to a furnace," she said...
Firemen's Confirmation. A quiet, careful man who runs his small-town practice with no frills (he does not even own a white coat), Dr. Cook is not the type to make a habit of long-distance diagnosis. But of Bob's letter he said: "It was a perfect case history, and a clear message to me." That message was "carbon monoxide poisoning." And 90 miles away, firemen who found a blocked furnace ventilator pipe that was forcing carbon monoxide back into the cottage made the final confirmation of Dr. Cook's diagnosis...