TIME
At 9:45 one morning last week a surprised Eastern Airlines radioperator at Washington’s awkward little airport received a message from an incoming plane:
HAVE VETERINARY AT AIRPORT. PASSENGER ABOARD ABOUT TO HAVE PUPS.
When Broker James Madison Austin of Manhattan landed with his fox terrier bitch, Susie, her distressing symptoms vanished.
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