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Heart specialists, meanwhile, were winnowing lists of 4-Fs in a nationwide experiment to determine how many men rejected for cardiac ailments might be salvaged for limited service. First reports were encouraging: of 2,000 men examined in New York and Philadelphia, 400 were found fit. If that percentage held up, Selective Service would have tapped a useful pool of manpower in its own backyard...
...H.A.A. includes members of well-known Boston families, many of them graduates of the College and the Medical School and embraces surgeons specializing in general operations, septic surgery, orthopedic surgery, ear, eye, nose and throat, neurosis, urology, X-ray, and on the medical side, in communicable diseases, cardiac troubles, gastritis, intestinal tropical medicine, and neuro-psychiatric treatment...
...Many wondered whether a stationary population would mean a decline in national wealth. Observers speculated about changes in consumer needs, industrial and occupational shifts. Said New York Timesman Luther Huston: "If there are fewer babies and more old people, there may be more doctors, for instance, who specialize in cardiac diseases than in obstetrics. The market for wheel chairs might outsell the market for perambulators...
...insults" of disease. With age the human heart grows broader at the base, more pointed at the apex. Heart muscle fibres turn dark brown, heart valves stretch like old rubber tubes, lose their youthful elasticity. But all of these changes are normal, none spells doom. In healthy persons "the cardiac pump itself usually functions without faltering into advanced...
Died. Robert Fechner, 63, shy, self-taught, Trojan-working authority on labor and industrial management, able director of the Civilian Conservation Corps since its founding in 1933; of a complication of cardiac and pulmonary ailments; in Washington, D. C. His pallbearers: six CCC campers...