A Denver, Co., heart specialist said here Monday that "'medically speaking," it probably won't hurt President Eisenhower to seek a second term.
"But personally I think he would be very foolish to do so," added Dr. S. Gilbert Blount Jr., who is associate professor of medicine, head of the section of cardiology and director of the cardiovascular laboratory at tlie University of Colorado medical school.
Dr. Blount said, "Even a man who has never had a heart ailment would be foolish to run for a second term as president."
"And in Eisenhower's case he has had all a man could possibly wish for in the way of prominence," added the physician, a featured speaker at the 19th annual meeting of the N. O. Graduate Medical Assembly, which opened Monday at the Municipal Auditorium. Dr. Blount said he cannot understand "why Eisenhower should punish himself further." He said the President has a nice farm and likes to play golf. "Why doesn't he just take .it easy and enjoy himself?"
The tall, amiable heart specialist said when Dr. Paul Dudley White made his second trip to Denver to examine the President he called him over the phone to consult him regarding the altitude. ...
Delegates to the convention, scheduled to last through Thursday, were welcomed by Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison; Dr. Max M. Green, president of the Louisiana State Medical Society; Dr. A. N. Houston, president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society; Dr. William W. Frye, dean of the Louisiana State university medical schoo], and Dr. Maxwell E. Lapham, dean of the Tulane university medical school.
A high light of the opening ses- j sion was the presentation of a past president award to Dr. Woodward D. Beach am. , Dr. Thomas B. Sellers made the presentation.
