Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-23

HIS iCldblUllS Will his parry IihQ
In Colorado the days passe
working for an hour or SO in the
morning and spending the rest
OF the day playing golf, fishing
painting, playing bridge.
On the morning of September
% the President was up early
and cooked his own breakfast OF
hot cakes, fried mush, pork, ano
beef bacon and sausageS. He
worked for two hours at his Office
at Lowry Air Force Base. Den
yer, then drove to the Cherry
Hills Country Club. He played
eighteen holes of golf, scoring "a
For lunch he had a Hamburger
with large slices of raw onion
Afterward he went out for a
nine-hole practice game, this
time walking instead of riding
in a motor cart between shots
On the eighth hole he complained
of heartburn and blamed it on
the raw onion.
His golf over, Mr.. Eisenhower
returned to the home of Mrs.
Doud, mother of Mrs. Eisen-
hover, at Denver. On the front
porch of the unpretentious eight
room gray brick house Mr.. Eisen-
hover as a young officer had
courted Mamie Doud.
Dimes With Aliens
George E. Allen and his wife,
} Mary. came to dinner. and they
had roast lamb. potatoes and
vegetables. The Aliens left about
9 o'clock, and the President re-
tired an hour later, feeling per-
fectly well.
About 2::3O o'clock on the
morning of September "a Mrs.
Eisenhower, whose bedroom was
across the hall from the Presi-
dents on the second floor, heard
her husband tossing about. He
was so restless that she awakened
him. Whats the matter, Ike?"
she asked. Are you having a
nightmare or something"
He said he was all right. But
within a very short time he felt
a pain in his chest of a kind he
never before had experienced.
He went into Mrs. Eisenhower
room. Thinking it might be a
recurrence of the indigestion of
the previous afternoon, she gave
him a dose of milk of magnesia
and sent him back to bed.
Then she called Gen. Howard
Snyder. the 74-year-old physi-
clan who had been Mr.. Eisen-
hower's doctor for 10 years. Pull
ing clothes over his paiamas, he
arrived from Lowry Air Force
Base. four miles away. at 3:ll
am It took only two or three
minutes for him to reach a tenta-
tive diagnosis; a coronary throm-
bosis. He gave the President
morphine to ease the pain and
shock. The doctor also injected
papaverine hydrochloride to dill
ate the arteries in the heart. and
heparin, which tends to increase
the liquidity of the blood and
prevent CLOTHING.
Seeks to Avoid Excitement
To spare Mrs. Eisenhower
from shock. DR.. Snyder sent her
back to bed without telling her
the Presidents true condition.
He put aside the idea of a
public announcement, also. be-
cause 1t would create excitement
that would permeate the Doud
house and possibly prove injuri-
GUS to the President.
After remaining with MIR. Eli
senhower through the night,
DR. Snyder in the morning told
his Office and Assistant Press
Secretary Murray Snyder ono
relation) that the President
suffered from a digestive upset.
The true news was not given
out until 2:S0 o'clock that after
noon - after an electrocardia-
gram had confirmed the diagno-
sis, and after the President had
been removed to Fitzsimons
Hospital.
Meanwhile, DR.. Snyder had
informed Mrs. Eisenhower. When
the President awoke from a deep
sleep about HAS am. very
weak, DR.. Snyder told him that
he had summoned two more
doctors. one a heart specialist.
Mr., Eisenhower did not seem
to be shocked when told he
would be taken to the hospital.
The doctors decided it would
be less of a strain on the Presi-
dent TO walk downstairs to the
car, with much Of his weight
borne By them. Otherwise he