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...Barn. Until the 1930s, the stock figure of the veterinarian in U.S. life was the horse doctor who operated, with a heavy harness to restrain his unanesthetized victim, in any handy barn. He would handle anything from a Chihuahua to a Percheron, prescribed more worm medicine than any other treatment. Today's vets usually have a couple of years of college, a four-year V.M. course, and must pass a state licensing examination. Their number has nearly doubled (to 19,257) in 20 years. Though a great majority (perhaps 85%) still work mostly on livestock-swine, sheep, cattle, horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinary Revolution | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Central Kitchen victims: "Should you find a worm or insect in your food, say nothing about...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Couthness | 1/15/1958 | See Source »

...seems there is a worm in the grapefruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VANGUARD'S AFTERMATH: JEERS AND TEARS | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...take a worm's-eye view of the world conflict and cut foreign aid, hamstring reciprocal trade and emasculate our information program, I can tell you that the billions we spend for missiles and submarines and aircraft will be going right down a rathole. And mark my words, if the Communists gain control of the people and resources of the uncommitted nations of the world, they will hold the whip hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: Priority: Defense | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters. But last week, while readers watched Capp spoof Cartoonist Allen Saunders' lovable, motherly missus-fixit Mary Worth as a nasty, interfering old harpy named Mary Worm, the worm turned: Capp himself emerged in Mary Worth drawn as a swinish (ugh!), detestable cartoonist named Hal Rapp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rap for Capp | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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