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Harvard toes off with eight other teams October 14 at the 13th annual Eastern College Athletic Conference golf finals in Cooperstown...
...making idols out of Pirates teams is nothing new to Pittsburgh. Consider the 1960 Pirates. How many super-stars were on that team? How many great names will hit the plaques at Cooperstown? Maybe one. In case you've forgotten, here is the list of memorables: catchers. Smokey Burgess and Hal Smith; first base, Dick Stuart: second base, Bill Mazeroski, shortstop, Dick Groat; third base, Don Hoak; and the fabulous, famous outfield--Bill Virdon, Bob "Hound dog" Skinner and Roberto Clemente. And on the in-famous mound staff, such immortal 20-game winners as Vernon "Deacon" Law, Bob Friend. Elroy...
...then admit their own patients or refer them to other private specialists on the staff. But the Bassett set out to be more than a medicine middleman for private practice. The hospital put its staff members on the payroll and became the primary provider of health care in Cooperstown. Now patients seeking attention can go directly to one of the hospital's seven specialty clinics or be referred from the general services department. Doctors treating patients in one department can simply refer them to another without fear of losing their business. No longer forced to compete for patients, local...
Today the old skepticism has virtually disappeared. Because there are no private physicians in Cooperstown and few in surrounding communities, most residents see themselves as the personal patients of the Bassett's 32 full-time physicians. They drop in at the hospital at the first sign of illness, and as a result, the doctors spot many medical problems in their earliest stages. Often they are able to head off the kind of serious illness that other Americans discover too late for proper care...
...recommended that this be accomplished by the creation of a nationwide network of 126 regional health centers, combining schools and hospitals, and located within an hour's drive of 95% of the population. As the ideal prototype for such institutions, the Carnegie report pinpointed one existing hospital: Cooperstown's Mary Imogene Bassett...