Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile, flies a plane, plays a fair golf game. He has never broadcast, but the twelve-year-old eldest of his three sons recently wrote a play which was aired on a Northern Ireland children's program. BBC knows him as the man who persuaded it to broadcast pop concerts for his Belfast students during lunch time. But Director-General Ogilvie comes to BBC at a time when there is talk of spending ?1,000,000 to double Broadcasting House facilities, when the daring television venture needs careful nursing, when BBC's critics are calling for a return...
Founder of the 150-bed Halstead, Kans. (pop. 1,367) hospital which he gave away in 1933 to the Sisters of St. Joseph, "Pop" Hertzler, now 68, is a lanky, Ichabod Cranelike surgeon whom a Civil War veteran described as "the homeliest man I seen since I saw Old Abe." During his farm boyhood his favorite reading was Dr. Foote's Family Physician, and Hertzler recalls with satisfaction the time when he walloped a mean teacher with a slate-it pointed to "the ability to act quickly, accurately and energetically...
...Hertzler's three-year course at Northwestern. Later he supplemented his education by correspondence courses and two years' study in Germany. His quaintest Americana are his adventures in kitchen surgery. Paying sick calls was no cinch. Horse & buggy covered 20 miles in half a day, while "Pop" shot rabbits and fence posts, read, slept, fought blizzards and dogs that were as bad as the roads. As standard instruments he carried a six-shooter for the dogs, wire cutter, shovel and hammer to cut through fences when he got lost in blizzards. No farmer ever complained...
...once in the kitchen, ready to operate, "Pop" was content. While the instruments boiled, he tried to josh the patient into feeling as confident as he did, sometimes had them offering to sharpen his tools. When one kitchen was too small, he set up his plank-&-barrel operating table under an apple tree. But despite these primitive conditions, says Hertzler, post-operative infections were not more frequent than in modern hospitals. The secret of successful operations, says Hertzler, is not a fancy operating room but thorough knowledge of anatomy and speed. In his own clinic, built with many a headache...
...most assistant surgeons, meddling parsons, quacks, lawyers (malpractice suits "are dependent on the presence of a lawyer in a state of malnutrition"), believers in mental healing. During a tumor operation, when a patient's friend stood by repeating "You think you see something, but there is nothing there," "Pop" held himself in till he finished, then slammed the gory ten-pound tumor on her feet...