Word: bethesda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inquiry would almost certainly have its bizarre aspects. It had one last week, when Captain Kramer was reported by the Hearst press to be "missing," only to be found within a few minutes at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital (see PRESS). In some ways the investigation might be the biggest Congressional show since the midget sat on Morgan's lap. But at last the facts of the most rankling disaster in U.S. history would be spread on the public record...
...opposition New York Post did some quick checking of its own, reported on Page One: " 'Pearl Harbor Witness' DIDN'T Vanish, Mr. Hearst. A Navy officer's 'mysterious disappearance' from Bethesda [Md.] Naval Hospital . . . just isn't so. ... By the simple expedient of telephoning the hospital from New York, [the Post] established that the officer . . . happened to be out for a few hours yesterday, visiting his wife, on leave granted by the hospital [and is back now]. He didn't vanish, but the scare headlines will...
...Bethesda, Md., last week the Institute was building a unique, three-story, 200-by-46 foot laboratory designed to prevent such accidents...
...laboratory at Mare Island are working on strong, lightweight legs in the one & only such Government-financed research project; 2) the dental laboratory at Philadelphia's Naval Hospital is working on natural-looking false hands; 3) Lieut. Commander Lamar W. Harris, dentist at the Navy's Bethesda, Md. medical center, announced last fortnight that he had developed a one-pound, natural-looking hand that works well...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Harry Truman methodically prepared himself for the big event. He discussed it earnestly with Britain's handsome Anthony Eden, who was hurrying back home from San Francisco. He had another conference with ex-Secretary Cordell Hull at the Bethesda Naval Hospital-the third and longest (50 minutes) since he became President. From Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt (who accompanied his father to Teheran) and from Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (who went along to Yalta), he got yet another fill-in on the Roosevelt policies. He had daily telephone conversations with Secretary of State Stettinius at San Francisco...