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There is no end to Boston's pitching strength. Bob Porterfield seems slated for his best year ever; Willard Nixon can take twenty--and so can long Frank Sullivan--while the younger hurlers like Delock, Suce and Brewer should provide depth in the bullpen...
...corner of the National Affairs bullpen is the most prized copy boy station in our editorial department. It is furnished with a comfortable chair, phone, water cooler, a typewriter and plenty of copy paper. And it is partly closed off by a massive pillar. In the privacy of this corner, a succession of young men have daydreamed, read, studied college textbooks or pecked hopefully at the typewriter between errands for the editor, the writers and the researchers in the N.A. section...
Sons, is reviewed in this issue (see BOOKS). Tom occupied the corner for a year. By day the copy boy buzzer was a continual interruption, but late at night, when the big bullpen was dark except for the ceiling reflections of nearby Broadway's neons, he sat under a desk lamp, pipe-smoking and writing. Fifteen times Tom rewrote his book. Late in the summer of 1954 he quit TIME and went off to the cranberry boglands of New Jersey's Toms River country to live alone in a shack and polish the final version of his Korean...
Last-week, at a mere 59 (Rudolph Matas is still alive at 95 and working on medical histories), Alton Ochsner gave up the reins as head of Tulane's department of surgery, though he will continue as a professor and can still be the bull in the bullpen. So far, no surgeon has been named. In a reminiscent mood, Ochsner recalled some of the Latin American dictators (including Argentina's fallen idol Juan Perón) on whom he has operated or for whom he has served as consultant...
Ochsner's bullpen clinics made the impression that he wanted. That was in 1927. Now some 3,000 physicians, graduated from his surgery classes, are practicing in Louisiana and neighboring states. He has done much to boost the level of medi calpractice throughout the Deep South, and thus fortified a great Tulane tradition. For its chair of surgery is the most noted south of St. Louis and one of the most influential...