Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neurosurgeon phoned Palo Alto, and White soon got a call from Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., pioneering head of Stanford's cardiovascular unit, a fellow resident with Cape Town's Dr. Barnard at the University of Minnesota and the developer of the heart-transplant technique first used by Barnard. Shumway asked about a possible transplant. White talked it over with his children, Judith, 18, and Richard, 12. He also consulted Virginia's mother. They all said...
...brain is a drastic opera tion. But does it constitute practicing medicine? This was the question that confronted a Justice Court jury in Redding, Calif., last week as Roger Whittaker, 26, went on trial, charged with the practice of medicine without a license. At the same time, Neurosurgeon George C. Stevenson was charged with having aided and abetted Whittaker by letting him do these things...
...Stevenson, 31, finished his residency at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and settled in Redding, he performed many operations inside patients' skulls. Some of the operations were emergency procedures on accident victims, but all were serious enough to require the attendance of two neurosurgeons. Dr. Stevenson, however, was the only neurosurgeon between Sacramento and Medford, Ore., a span of 275 miles...
...rubber magnate Leonard K. Firestone, Schick Razor president Patrick J. Frawley, former CIA chief John McCone (now a millionaire San Marino resident), and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and member of Project Alert and the Anti-Communist Voters League. Reagan's father-in-law, Chicago neurosurgeon Loyal Davis, has also contributed heavily, and recruited support among right-wing friends...
...Reagan married Actress Nancy Davis, now 43, the daughter of Chicago Neurosurgeon Loyal Davis. Reagan first met her when she complained to the Screen Actors Guild that she was receiving unwanted Communist literature in the mail. They have two children, Patricia, 13, and Ronald Prescott, 8. The Reagans have a 305-acre ranch at Lake Malibu, where they raise Thoroughbreds, and a house in Pacific Palisades, with a pool, a view of Los Angeles, and a monumental assemblage of electric gadgets and appliances-a reward for Reagan's duties on "the mashed-potato circuit" as a lecturer for General...