Word: horseback
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There was also the Oregonian who was in such bad shape in 1952 that Chief Cardiologist William Likoff doubted that he could survive surgery. He and his wife insisted on it, and he had a tricky double operation. Now he spends eight or nine hours a day on horseback. There was also a Pennsylvanian who startled the doctors by saying that he had gone back to work in the coal mines. "Hell," he said, "that's the only job I know." In schoolgirl high spirits and 40 pounds heavier was Judith Schmidt, 12, who had been chilled...
Many of Dr. Greenwell's first patients lived in log cabins like the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born, 15 miles from New Haven. To reach them, over rugged trails, Dr. Greenwell often had to leave the buggy and go on horseback. Sometimes he had to walk. He has also answered calls by rowboat and switch engine. Even when roads had been so improved that Dr. Greenwell could make calls by car, many of his patients had to be treated in their out-of-the-way homes because there was no hospital near by. Not until...
...prevent the picadors, who lance bulls from horseback, from tooling their lances so that they weaken the bulls too early in the fight, the new decree requires that the steel points be impounded for 48 hours before the corrida. It also requires the bullfighter to face the bull with only one cape-waving helper, instead of the many formerly used to confuse the animal. Bulls now must be bigger, and to save them needless, heavy-handed torture, bullfighters must limit their passes to twelve minutes and kill within six minutes. If they fail, the bulls will be released from...
...know tobacco best-Philip Morris' Board Chairman Al Lyon, 67, and Benson & Hedges' President Joseph Cullman Jr., 71-have the same hobby: horseback riding. Last week they decided to ride the same horse, i.e., merge their fast-growing companies. The new company will keep the Philip Morris name and officers, absorb Cullman as chairman of the executive committee, his son Joseph III as a vice president. But the Cullmans will continue to run Benson & Hedges as a separate division...
This week there is black news for Arnold's sentimental defenders. In The Traitor and the Spy, Author James Thomas Flexner (Doctors on Horseback, A Short History of American Painting) has drawn their hero-and quartered him. His is the most carefully researched study of the Arnold-André story so far published, more searching even than the late Carl Van Doren's Secret History of the American Revolution, which showed Arnold for what he was. Cool, reasoned, and highly readable, The Traitor and the Spy may well stand as the last word on the subject...