Word: docs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hustling Aggies had one obvious goal: stop S.M.U.'s big (6 ft. 8 in., 225 Ibs.), high-scoring Jim Krebs. They surged about the outsized center like a pack of frantic terriers to seal him off from teammates' passes. But at half time. S.M.U. Coach E. O. ("Doc") Hayes deftly changed offense, told his players to shoot from the outside to force the Aggie defense away from Krebs and then, "when Jim is free, feed...
...halfback, Getchell has Pete Erskine, Bill Rapp, Charlie Steele, Pete Niebyl, Tom Gleason, and John Freeman contending for three starting posts. Full-back Dale Fruman and linemen Jay Draper, Dick Emrich, Joe Pelligrino, Mike Falk, and "Doc" Bennett also figure in Getchell's plans, but he's not sure where...
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...