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...sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become a pediatrician and won wide fame as an expert on the horticulture of babies. "They thought I was a spy for the Canadian Pacific...
...wrong, says Stanford University's Dr. Alan K. Done in Pediatrics. When they rush to prescribe one of the hundreds of anti-fever drugs now marketed, physicians are attacking the symptom, not the underlying disease, and may be interfering with one of nature's defense mechanisms, says Pediatrician Done. And although some youngsters' miseries seem to be the result of, fever, other children with a high temperature are as happy as clams, so in their case the treatment is "more for the benefit of the parents or the physician than the child...
Proud at becoming a grandfather for the first time, Cleveland Pediatrician Benjamin (Baby and Child Care) Spock, 55, noted that Daniel Wood Spock (8 Ibs. 5 oz.) has the long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...
...newspaper reporter, agreed that he could never succeed unless he could ask questions in English. No one has any illusions about how many college-quality scholars are likely to come from the experiment's first group. The girl with the eight brothers and sisters may never be a pediatrician, as she hopes, but because of the experiment she may be able to enter nurses' training...
Died. Valentina Pavlovna Guercken Wasson, 57, Russian-born Manhattan pediatrician who, with her husband, stood in the absolute front rank of amateur experts on the mushroom; of cancer; in Manhattan. Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Wasson (a vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.) traveled around the world in pursuit of exotic mushrooms, published in 1957 the two-volume Mushrooms, Russia and History. Probably the most recondite work on mycology ever printed, it was limited to 512 copies, sold for $125, now brings...