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...Another active member of the Specialist Reserve: Captain Elliott Roosevelt, assigned to Air Corps procurement...
Ordered to 28 days of active duty last week was Colonel Hamilton Fish Jr.. of the U.S. Army's Specialist Reserve.* Congressman Fish helped to organize a Negro regiment (the crack 15th Infantry, now the 369111 Coast Artillery) during World War I, served in it as a captain, and won the Croix de guerre. As a procurement officer in the Specialist Reserve, Colonel Fish will have more use for a pencil than for a gun, will presumably return to his loud duty in the U.S. House of Representatives after his Army month is over. While...
...Gland Specialist John Brinkley, barely defeated (twice) for the Governorship of Kansas, once potent operator of a radio station over the Mexican border. Said William Allen White: "He will appeal to the hillbilly mind as it has never been lured before. . . . He is irresistible to the moron mind, and Texas has plenty of such!" Editor White's conclusion: Doc Brinkley...
Engineers of the German Union for Colonial Technique are preparing a 50-year plan for Africa "on a scientific basis and, for the time being, without regard to the political constellation." Root ideas of the plan are those of Geophysicist Hermann Soergel of Munich. A conservation specialist, Herr Soergel points to the "tragic desiccation" of Africa caused by the fact that many rivers-such as the Orange, Cunene, Zambezi, Limpopo-once watered great interior basins, but have gradually gnawed through mountain ridges and now empty into the sea. Herr Soergel would rehydrate Africa by several giant schemes...
Once Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes found a patient reading up on his disease. "Look out!" warned the doctor, "or you'll die of a misprint some day." Last week, to replace old-fashioned medical "encyclopedias," a group of eminent physicians, headed by Stomach Specialist Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, published a series of little books (Help Your Doctor to Help You; Harper; 95?) on five diseases (twelve more are coming). The books, which were displayed for the first time at the College of Physicians meeting in Boston, are for popular consumption, are supposed to contain no medical...