Word: typing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Myron Segal, 35, with an arm-long string of qualifications for human surgery, including the straight-to-the-heart type, got into the sideline of saving dogs' lives by accident. Where he had lived, in Montreal and Boston, heartworm was no problem. But in the South (where the worm larvae are carried by flies or mosquitoes), it afflicts many dogs. Caught soon after the animal begins to cough and wheeze, it can be treated with arsenical drugs. What interested Dr. Segal was the advanced cases, too far gone for drugs, which a vet drew to his attention...
...have noted that two of the trade paper reviewers inferred that the show lacked "insight reporting"; well, they are absolutely right ... I am not a competent reporter . . . and furthermore, I am not interested in a low-rated artistic success. This "depth in focus" type of programing gets lots of applause from critics, but not enough viewers to field a baseball team...
...Senator Stuart Symington had done anything newsworthy in the last month, it had certainly escaped the attention of most observers. Adlai Stevenson, returning from Europe, again denied that he was a presidential candidate, again left the door open to a draft-and managed a few sticks of type on the inside pages of some newspapers...
...shares of Eastern at $9; each is now worth $155 on a pre-split basis, and Rockefeller, with $3,970,000 worth, is Eastern's biggest stockholder. In 1939 an unknown plane designer, J. S. McDonnell, came to him with some paper plans for an advanced type of fighter. Rockefeller put up $10,000 and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. became one of the top plane companies. When Rockefeller's holdings were worth $400,000, he sold out-as he usually does when a company "matures"-to invest in newer companies...
...with hives while playing basketball. The boy had to give up sports because every time he played he got hives, with swelling around the eyes, in his throat, and sometimes in his hands and feet. Studied at a big university medical center, he was diagnosed as having an "exercise-type urticaria...