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...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...
...hours. She has treated herself and practically every member of her family, including her husband, Investment Counselor John Powell, who gets his pains in the neck. She became one of Kennedy's doctors in 1955, when she stopped the back cramps that he suffered after a spine operation (TIME, Jan. 27). Kennedy calls her "a genius...
Rammed & Sunk. At 13, Jack Kennedy dropped out of Connecticut's Canterbury School with acute appendicitis. Recurring jaundice later forced his withdrawal from the London School of Economics and Princeton. Playing junior-varsity football at Harvard, he injured his spine, and in the Pacific, during World War II, he picked up malaria. When his PT boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagri, Kennedy was flung violently to the deck, and his old back injury was aggravated, causing spinal muscle spasms and sciatica...
Back from Laos to a Manhattan hos pital came Jungle Physician Thomas Dooley, 33, with an apparent recurrence in his spine of the cancer that had originally attacked him in the chest...
From all these horrors the hero is saved by-yessiree-piano lessons. After seven or eight years of them he sends trills up the spine of a young socialite (Jean Seberg), who thinks he is a genius and introduces him to the finer things of life-like, say, her penthouse. Happy Ending...