Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birthplace, business, earlier illnesses, etc. must be provided on most follow-up forms each time he gets new treatment. One Los Angeles physician gave a patient a simple penicillin shot, had to call him back for a second visit when the form also required a general health checkup. A Denver obstetrician simply ignores one insurance-form question: Was the pregnancy an accident...
Tainted Bait. In Denver, Virgil Wilson, 25, wandered into a U.S. Secret Service agency, lifted $10 in coins from a desk drawer, smiled pleasantly at unconcerned employees, was nabbed as he left, hauled off to jail and booked for possession of counterfeit money...
Born on a farm near Rogers, Ark., the son of a man who was studying for the Methodist ministry, Loy Henderson went to Northwestern University ('15) and Denver University Law School (1917-18), served with the American Red Cross during World War I and the aftermath, came home in 1922 with such interest in foreign problems that he took the stiff foreign service exams. Passed and appointed, he performed energetically in junior jobs from Dublin to Moscow, brilliantly in Washington as head of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (1945-48), and as Ambassador to Iraq...
Flying to Denver last fortnight to dedicate Mamie Doud Eisenhower Park, the First Lady left her Brown Palace Hotel suite only twice in five days, limited her dedicatory remarks to a few words of thanks. Last week Denver's sharp-eyed observers learned why her schedule had been sharply curtailed. White House Physician Howard McC. Snyder, who had accompanied her west, accompanied her also to Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, stood by while an Army gynecologist did a two-hour hysterectomy...
Magic on the Stand. Nobody talks a client's language better than Dr. Irving P. Krick, 50, onetime Caltech meteorologist who started the first private weather firm in Denver in 1938. A leading rainmaker as well as a hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260 radio stations and the Mexican Department of Agriculture. As a controversial proponent of really long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto...