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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Although my operation was the first successful one in which a whole lung was cut out at one stage, two other pioneers in this field deserve much praise for their courage and success. Rudolph Nissen, then of Berlin but now of New York, in 1931 caused the lung of a child to slough out by operating on her in two stages in such a way as deliberately to shut off the blood to the lung. In 1932 Cameron Haight of the University of Michigan . . . performed a similar operation on another child . . . Both patients recovered . . . The reason for the operation...
Last October, speaking before a House committee investigating the B-36 controversy, General Collins remarked: "We [the ground forces] have also had to operate on limited funds for antiaircraft and for research and development, particularly in the guided-missiles field ... Only day before yesterday, en route from Japan, I stopped at the Army's Detroit tank arsenal for a few hours and saw our proposed changes in tank design. These plans are splendid and show we have the know-how. Only one element is lacking-the money. However, if the funds were made available tomorrow, it would still...
Learning the Hard Way. Smiling, round-faced Colonel Paik Sun Yup, the division commander, reached out his hand and gave me a gold-toothed "How do you do?" in English. At 30, Colonel Paik is rated the best field commander of the Korean army. His younger brother, 27-year-old Paik In Yup, commander of the iyth Regiment, was wounded in fighting farther north after successfully leading his regiment out of the precarious pocket. The two Paik boys' are a shining contrast to the inefficient, sluggish South Korean commanders who bungled the early days of fighting in the west...
...advisers on duty in the field marveled at Paik and his division: "It just isn't the same army as it was two weeks ago. They've learned the hard way-but they learned fast...
...Died. Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 80, bemedaled cavalryman who joined the British army in 1889, served with distinction in the Boer War and World War I, became Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1920-22) and Commander in Chief of the Army in India (1930-35); in London...