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...jerseys, guns, loving cups, lariats, old shoes, autographed pictures, boxing gloves, back-newspaper files, geological maps, menus of note worthy Carter banquets and excursions, baseballs and teetering stacks of old correspondence. Like the late W. C. Fields in his bookkeeping role, he can plunge into the dustiest, most disheveled pile of papers and fetch out the document he wants...
...that is almost as legendary as Ross's volcanic temper. "No one," says a friend, "has yet gotten through a door behind him." Editor Shawn never swears or raises his voice. He works up to 14 hours a day as quietly as a bank clerk, carries home a pile of work to his Fifth Avenue apartment. For relaxation, he plays hot jazz on the piano and reads four or five books a week...
...medical schools models for the rest of the U.S. Stirred to action, other schools eventually began trying to compete. They set up clinics, built laboratories, hired first-rate full-time faculties, raised entrance requirements. "The revolution thus accomplished," wrote Flexner later, "brought American medicine from the bottom of the pile to the very...
Varsity wrestlers handed Tufts a five-point gift on a forfeit, allowed the Jumbos to pile up an impressive early lead, and then scored four straight pins to win, 23 to 11, last night at the Blockhouse...
...summer of 1944, things began to pile up on Private Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing...