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Power of Deduction. In Des Moines, Sportswriter Leighton House, whose pay check carried on its stub the usual list of wartime deductions (for Social Security, hospital insurance, company pension, Community Chest, war bond, victory tax), made a natural mistake, tore up the check, tried to deposit the stub at his bank...
...Little Joe" stepped forward. Little Joe is Lieut. Colonel Joseph Stilwell Jr., 30-year-old assistant chief of Intelligence on his father's staff. The general fidgeted. "Who brought up all this bunk?" he whispered. "Stand still," Little Joe hissed, and pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on the chest of his father...
...dripping Army tent in Buna last week a heavy-set Boston surgeon, Major Neil Swinton, wiped the sweat from his balding head, looked down at the soldier on the stretcher-newest patient of the "fourth portable." The boy was dirty, his eyes were closed, his chest was taped where the Major had cut out a sniper's slug the size of a silver dollar which had torn through from the back, just missing his heart. But because of the soothing hypodermic and the yellowish fluid now trickling into his arm, he was breathing easily. Only 40 minutes before...
Senior surgeon of the third portable is blond, athletic Major William Garlick of Baltimore, a chest and diaphragm specialist. His present wardrobe consists of shorts and sneakers. In the first three days of one battle he had 68 cases of chest and abdominal wounds-right down his alley. The portable took care of them so fast that no serious peritonitis developed. They were only a small part of the wounded. Most of the cases were less dangerous- arm, leg, back or buttock wounds. There was only one amputation. Major Swinton's portable had to dig four wells on their...
Forty-one Army medical officers began a six-week course at the Med School yesterday, studying general surgery as well as diseases of the chest, extremities, face, and law. This is the first uniformed group at the Medical School, and will be followed by other similar contingents...