Word: veterinarian
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...Albany, Calif., after the Golden Gate Fields track veterinarian refused to permit two horses to run in the mile-and-sixteenth Millbrae Handicap, the stewards ordered Calumet Farm's Dixie Lad, whose trainer tried to scratch him, to race in order to keep the betting field at eight. Handicap's winner: Dixie Lad, who paid $31 on a $2 ticket...
...nothing) Leach, a former adman now in the breeding business, had bought him in 1951 for "more than $10,000 and less than $25,000," and trucked him from Texas to North Carolina. But Larry began showing signs of listlessness and lameness in one leg. Leach's veterinarian, Dr. James T. Dixon, diagnosed Larry's ills as rheumatoid arthritis. While Larry lost weight-and his interest in heifers-Leach persuaded a friend at Merck & Co., Inc. to send him thirty-six 500-mg. bottles of cortisone...
...beat a dog about the head with a pistol . . . The men again attack the g as he is leading the old man on a mountain trail. The old man cries for help, tries to find the dog, and plunges over a cliff to his death on the rocks. A veterinarian who is a thief kills an injured companion with an injection of poison as the man lies in bed. The dog is doped, but attacks a man. Two men kidnap a girl, then beat her." The show, said Mabley grimly, "was written and produced expressly for children...
...most provocative news of medical needlework came from the congress' French president, Dr. Roger de la Füye: "I affirm that acupuncture, professionally administered the evening or morning before a sporting match, will increase the performance of a champion. These same punctures, administered by a veterinarian acupuncturist to a horse 20 minutes before the race, are capable of 'doping' sprinters, trotters or jumpers in a clean and legal manner, and giving them a clear advantage...
This year Whiskers grew sick and feeble. Last week a veterinarian discovered that he had a brain tumor and put him out of his misery with a lethal injection of a barbiturate. In their sorrow, the men of Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 experienced something almost like relief. Whiskers had never learned to get back down ladders. He had answered 3,000 alarms, had climbed on an average of twice at each fire, had been cornered in the smoke, rescued against his will, and had been lugged back down to the street-all 60 wriggling pounds of him-on each...