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...able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery is, in the full sense of the word, negligible...
...outcome of this fruitless face-saving is a silly tale of the undoing of little Poppy, who is fresh out of a Swiss finishing school, looks and acts it. She has an affair with Doc Omar. This upsets Sir Guy, who is still more upset when he discovers that Mother Gin Sling is his Chinese wife, whom he had long thought dead. That disclosure makes the slightly tarnished Poppy behave so badly that her mother shoots her dead, and everyone goes home...
Back in the days when Dr. Archibald T. "Doc" Davison, master-builder of the present Crimson chorus, first took over, the club never sang anything but college songs. It scorned "highbrow" compositions, and stuck strictly to such lamp-post and bath-tub harmonies as "Bulldog on the Bank," or "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair...
Then there was Perpetual, owned and driven by foxy Doc Parshall, the Earl Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
...Kansas, once potent operator of a radio station over the Mexican border. Said William Allen White: "He will appeal to the hillbilly mind as it has never been lured before. . . . He is irresistible to the moron mind, and Texas has plenty of such!" Editor White's conclusion: Doc Brinkley...