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...brain surgery, but I know more about feeding babies." Back home, Dr. Sanders, a greying 54, hustled to get his state's organization started fast. He knew the family doctor's problems. For 21 years he had been a general practitioner in Caspiana (pop. 265) and in Shreveport, where he runs the Sanders Clinic. Within 40 days he had organized Louisiana's A.A.G.P., with himself as president. Last week, Louisiana's chapter of the A.A.G.P. was the first to hold a scientific meeting. President Sanders invited the 240 members to Alexandria to discuss "practical scientific subjects...
...President Hugh Baillie: President Thomas Beck, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Editor Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor; Publisher Norman Chandler, Los Angeles Times; President John D. Ewing, Times Publishing Co., Ltd., Shreveport, La.; Managing Editor Lee Hills, Miami Herald; President Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Denver Post; President Philip L. Jackson, Portland Journal Publishing Co.; Publisher H. G. Kern, Boston Record; Publisher Charles B. McCabe, New York Mirror; Publisher Malcolm Muir, Newsweek; Publisher Francis S. Murphy, Hartford Times; President Ralph Nicholson, New Orleans Item Co.; Publisher Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun;, Associate Editor Robert Reed, Kansas...
...quiet Sunday afternoon in Shreveport, La., and two schoolboys (9 and 11) were playing cowboys & Indians in the schoolyard. One of them slung a rock-and accidentally broke a window. That set them off. With a whoop, they threw rocks and more rocks. Great was the slaughter-156 windows-in Alexander School...
...presiding minister, Dr. M. E. Dodd of Shreveport, La., raised a forbidding hand, but Norris had already started in his high, strident voice. Desperately, Dr. Dodd fell back on the pastor's last resort: he raised his voice and sang, "How firm a foundation. . . ." The congregation loyally joined in. But grinning Heckler Norris was right with them on the second verse, bellowing the words louder than...
...caught the eye of Wallace Pratt, then Standard's top geologist, who hired Gene to work fin its subsidiary, Humble Oil Co. There Holman again impressed the right person-William Stamps Parish, Humble's president. In a short time he was made boss of Humble's Shreveport office. When Holman asked for "instructions," Parish waved a hand and said: "Just run things...