Word: janet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his Choate roommate, New York Adman K. Le Moyne Billings. Later in the day he stretched his legs again. Hiding behind dark glasses and a grey fedora, he walked almost unrecognized among the skiers and sleigh riders of Battery Kemble Park. This week the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, hopes to get him to relax by swimming for the first time in the indoor pool that was built for Franklin Roosevelt...
...Real" society, from Charles A. Munn to the Michael Phippses, had shut itself away behind ten-ton closed doors, but cafe society and show business people were plentiful as palms. Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis turned up as guests of Joe Kennedy, Zsa Zsa Gabor was visiting the automotive Dodges (Gregg and Horace), and a string of parties greeted Jule Styne, composer of Broadway...
...dissected the frogs in anatomy lessons for them and showed them the historic experiment in which Luigi Galvani discovered electric currents in a twitching frog's leg. The lessons took. Last week, to the quiet satisfaction of Dr. Travell, now retired at a ripe 91, Younger Daughter Janet, 59, became a big frog in a big pond: President Kennedy named her as his personal physician. She is the first woman White House doctor, and the first nonmilitary physician in that job since the end of Chester A. Arthur's administration...
...Palace. No ordinary woman, Dr. Janet Travell (Wellesley, '22; Cornell University Medical College, '26) is no ordinary physician. From her father, who had pioneered in galvanism-electrical treatment of muscle disorders-she picked up a keener-than-average interest in the human spine and its disks, its nerves and its muscles, and the aches and ills that beset them. Young Dr. Travell turned intensively to the study and treatment of pain-especially musculoskeletal pain. By 1930, her old med school put her on the faculty in the pharmacology division. There, in what is now the "great white palace...
...even then, Jackie Bouvier seemed somehow removed from her group; her friends noticed it and still recall it. In 1940 her parents were divorced. Two years later, Janet Bouvier married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a Washington broker, but Black Jack, who died in 1957, never remarried. Jackie adored her father, and her eyes still glisten when she speaks of him. "He was a most devastating figure," she says. "At school all my friends adored him, and used to line up to be taken out to dinner when he came...