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There is Dr. Sam, a little uncomfortable at being praised so, now and then signaling his friend to lay off. Nothing doing. Bert Shoemaker recalls Doc's youth, the old days when he worked at the local drugstore, his herculean labors with the injured the day of the great train wreck, how he raised funds for the nearby hospital, how soft he was about collecting bills from the poor. Brusquely, yet delicately, Speaker Shoemaker talks about the doctor's great bereavement−the beloved wife whose mind gave way after she lost two babies. A Family Party...
...those were two-fisted piano players," he recalls. "Men like Sticky Mack and Doc Perry and James P. Johnson and Willie 'The Lion' Smith. With their left hand, they'd play big chords for the bass note, and just as big ones for the offbeat, and they really swang. The right hand played real pretty. They did things technically you wouldn't believe...
...surgery on June 9: How is he doing? They knew that Dr. Snyder and two colleagues-Major General Leonard D. Heaton, who performed the operation, and Colonel Thomas W. Mattingly, the Walter Reed heart specialist-had just put their patient through a new physical examination. Summed up old (75) Doc Snyder: The President "is in fine shape." His electrocardiogram shows "no deterioration" of the heart. His weight is between 162 Ibs. and 163 Ibs., and "doing O.K." (but. said Snyder for the first time, the President's weight actually dropped to 157¾ Ibs. after the operation...
Sweet-Scented Clubs. As for the fight itself, "Doc" Kearns and Co. need not have worried about the talents of such an old (42) trouper as Archie Moore. With a skill perfected in tank-town arenas and sweet-scented boxing clubs all over the world, Archie wasted no time half-blinding the Saskatoon Statue with slicing jabs to the eye. Then, the fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later...
...whatever cost" was the naked doc trine of the necessities of power. Forgotten for the moment were the usual sententious pleas that Cypriots had to be protected from terrorists, that the Turks in Cyprus had to be saved from the Greeks, that most Cypriots would be worse off under Greek sovereignty...