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...honor. The greatest woman athlete of the half century, Babe was an all-America basketball player, star of the 1932 Olympics (javelin, 80-meter hurdles, high jump), winner of all amateur golf titles and queen of the lady professionals. After the Beaumont tournament, Babe entered a hospital for a checkup, and doctors ordered her prepared for surgery. Medical diagnosis: a rectal malignancy. Athletic prognosis: the end of a fabulous career in big-time sports...
Most lavish is the Greenbrier Clinic, set up in a wing of the Greenbrier Hotel in 1948 by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Now, 45 big companies send their executives to the Greenbrier periodically for a leisurely, three-day checkup on the company (cost: $100, plus hotel-room charges). Executives may take their wives (many clients foot the hotel bill for wives too) and play golf or swim between medical examinations. Said the wife of one recent visitor: "The only time in years I have spent so long with my husband at one time was when he was at the Greenbrier...
...York's Extension Examiners found that only 20% were in normal health. In Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital, three doctors examined 55 executives under so years of age, found only three entirely free from organic disorders. Of 340 Standard Oil (N J.) executives reporting for a medical checkup, 235 had something wrong and 192 had ills that would materially affect their working lives...
Instead of a mandatory checkup, most corporations have changed to voluntary ones-and the results are confidential between doctor and patient. Today, of the 450 companies which the American Management Association considers to have good medical programs, only a few still require a report on each man to the company president. But companies like Ford, Du Pont, General Motors and Jones & Laughlin, all of which have voluntary programs, make it abundantly clear to executives that it is a good idea to be examined...
...Checkup. In Toledo, shortly after ten men broke out of the Lucas County jail, a man phoned and asked: "Sheriff, has they caught any of us boys...