Word: doc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast. Lead-footed Louis Meyer, who vowed to quit driving after winning his second Indianapolis race, followed his usual tactics of tailing dangerous opponents, sprinting when they stopped for gas. At 360 miles, last year's winner, Kelly Petillo, who had hired a crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals...
...Doubleday's surprise, his own circulation manager, William Herbert ("Doc") Eaton stepped up with a scheme to lease the two big losers, share profits with the parent concern if & when profits should appear. On money borrowed from West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., Mr. Eaton then took over the magazines, carried them from Doubleday, Doran's Garden City, N. Y. printing house to Manhattan. With him went Adman Henry Jones and Country Life's socialite editor, Reginald Townsend Townsend...
Meantime burly, aggressive "Doc" Eaton was loudly calling The American Home's soaring circulation to the enthusiastic attention of advertisers. While this encouraging state of affairs was in the making, Publisher Eaton and Editor Austin gradually took over the Country Life organization, squeezed out Editor Townsend. Last autumn they purchased the two magazines outright from Doubleday, Doran for $750,000, now rule Country Life-American Home Corp. jointly, both as business partners and as man & wife...
...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...
...ugly contest between Clarence Wiley ("Doc") Spears and Walter Ernest ("Little Doctor") Meanwell for the athletic directorship of the University of Wisconsin started in 1932. That autumn Wisconsin's board of regents forced the athletic council to bring Spears on from Oregon to be head football coach. He accepted the job at a lower wage than he was getting at Oregon because alumni groups had promised him the athletic directorship within two years. In 1934 President Glenn Frank, apparently worried over Spears' reputation as an advocate of "bigtime" football, used his deciding vote on the board of regents...