Word: bethesda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, brought back from the brink of the grave by the teamwork of 15 doctors and countless corpsmen, Kirn navigated his first unaided steps down a Bethesda corridor. Most Guillain-Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block...
After treatment for his ailing sinuses, Joe McCarthy strode out of Bethesda Naval Medical Center one day last week and immediately began splashing around in the political gutter. Summoning the press, the Wisconsin Senator announced that he is "supporting all of the Republican candidates" this year except one. The exception: New Jersey Senatorial Candidate Clifford Case, who early in the campaign denounced McCarthy as a "distracting and divisive" force in the Republican Party and in the nation. McCarthy was opposed to Case for "reasons I think will be made public before election." With a sneer, he vaguely referred to some...
...overall director of the department of health, Craig imported Rear Admiral (ret.) Bertram Groesbeck Jr., former commanding officer of the famous Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. As the state's first commissioner of mental health, Craig picked an unlikely looking candidate: a handsome, 41-year-old blonde with grey-green eyes, Dr. Margaret Elaine Morgan, a topnotch Indiana psychiatrist. Governor Craig was not deterred by the fact that her brother, Ivan H. ("Jack") Morgan, was feuding with him in G.O.P. councils (he has since booted the brother out of party office, kept the sister on at a higher...
...familiarity with books that allows him to indulge in quoting Dostoevsky, Ortega y Gasset, or Gordon Allport. He was termed a "brilliant" student at the Harvard. Medical School, from which he graduated in 1933, and his education continued in the Navy, on a South Pacific Hospital ship, and Bethesda during World War II where he learned the mental problems of young men under the worst forms of stress...
Another guinea pig now in the Bethesda center is 24-year-old Robert Brantner (Brethren) of Lanark, Ill. In metabolism studies he is being kept on a rice diet in an effort to make this unsalted. monotonous regimen (usually prescribed to keep down water retention in heart cases) less wearisome and more nourishing. The trouble has been that because it lacks protein the rice-fruit menu causes the dieter to burn up his own body proteins. Metabolism experts have tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also...