Word: janet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while last week, the most important instrument of Government was the thermometer that measured the ups and downs of presidential temperature. Even as the nation's most celebrated backache seemed on the mend, John Fitzgerald Kennedy came down with what the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, described as a "mixed bacterial and viral infection...
Side Effects. Salinger, badly stung by charges that he had been evasive about the true nature of the back injury, set up a press conference for Dr. Travell. To some 100 White House reporters, Janet Travell said that there was no connection between the virus and the back troubles. She took a dim view of the Potomac cruise -admitted she would have liked to have advised against it. But the infection, she added, had one good side effect: by forcing the President to bed, it gave the back an additional chance to heal. There was not much time for healing...
Angry Press. All week long, Dr. Janet Travell, the White House physician, smilingly dodged the press. While the President was in Palm Beach, Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher was asked if a consulting doctor had been called in, answered, "No." But word soon leaked out that Dr. Preston Wade, a New York surgeon, had indeed flown to Palm Beach to examine the President's back...
...Shoveling about ten spadefuls of dirt, he felt a twinge in his back but said nothing about it. During the next few days the pain grew worse and when, just before his trip to Europe, he went to rest at Hyannisport, he sent for the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell. She diagnosed the ailment as "a lumbosacral strain," treated the President with Novocain injections and hot packs. Out of public view, he used crutches to get about the big estate...
Born. To David Michael Mountbatten, 42, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of Britain's royal couple and best man at their wedding, and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, his second wife, a Bermuda socialite and sometime Manhattan mannequin: their first child, a son, who ensures continuation of the Mountbatten name (only other family male: British Defense Staff Chief Earl Mountbatten); in London...