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...told by a "steerer" (usually a lawyer or insurance man) which doctor to go to; the doctor then pads his fees to double the normal amount (or, more often, by prolonging treatment unnecessarily) and sends a kickback to the steerer. If the doctor refers the patient to a specialist or an X-ray laboratory, he gets a second piece of dirty money when the specialist or laboratory pads fees in turn and kicks some back...
Tops in his racket, the Crimson's colorful coach broke into fame with the Athletics in 1940, and was getting secure in the second base position when he entered the Navy at the end of the 1942 season, interrupting his playing career. He obtained his Chief Specialist (A) rate, and was subsequently assigned to the V-12 Unit here, where he is O.O.D...
Incidentally, Lt. Towne, you looked great out there at second base. As usual, that eminent financier and V-loan specialist "Weeds" Nillson played a terrific game at short. On one play, a slashing line drive was hit over second base. Prof. Nillson dove for the ball. He speared it with his gloved hand. Then he fainted. Speed-merchant Bursk could not seem to get together with himself. Chuck Livesey played a terrific game at the bat and in the field. (So what? Sources is our toughest course...
...specialist in nudes, Artist Peirce has a finely sensuous feeling for barns. In the last decade, he has painted a dozen unexcelled canvasses of the light-shot, hay-filled interiors of sunlit barns. But Maine folk would never stand for a naked woman walking around in a cowshed. So Painter Peirce first sketched his barn, then came to Manhattan to locate an appropriate model and paint his canvas...
...twice arrested in Baltimore for peddling dope. In Pittsburgh he jumped bail when charged with practicing medicine on immigrants with a machine to cure syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer, other ailments. In Manhattan he was jailed for establishing a Madison Avenue practice without a license. His pickings as a "specialist" during six busy weeks in Utica totaled $36,000. Before coming to Philadelphia, said the Record, Schireson made "one of the largest medical incomes in the U.S."-$500,000 a year...