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...Wyck Mason was Rouner's cox, with Nick Brown at seven, his brother, Lee Rouner, at six, Al Rieselbach at five, Phil Dubois at four, Bill Bliss--filling in for Win Whitman--at three, Dugald Fletcher...
That were a life of perfect bliss...
What the Army failed to explain was why only one doctor in each city was interested in such a profitable sideline. In Washington the Army's Surgeon General, Major General Raymond W. Bliss, was quick to announce that he would investigate the whole affair. Just to make sure, Georgia's Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, decided to turn a congressional X ray on the situation himself...
...More in Summer." Headmaster Clark, a Phillips Exeter and Amherst ('17) man, was neither a football man nor a professional educator. He was a businessman who had once run an audience-survey company with Claude (Hooperating) Hooper. But he remembered what Harvard's Bliss Perry had once said during a summer course. "Everyone learns more in summer," said Perry, "because he concentrates on a single subject." Headmaster Clark decided that education might be like that all year 'round...
Last week, on its 175th birthday, the Medical Service of the U.S. Army was, in the words of Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss, "in the most difficult place it has ever been in-Korea." Over the years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics...