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...Christmas card TIME sent out last year to those who had been given gift subscriptions: a string of colored cutouts representing 21 departments of the magazine. A collection of these cards now hangs in a small hospital ward in Korea. The man who hung them is Dr. Paul S. Crane, American surgeon and head of the Presbyterian Medical Center in Chonju...
...Crane's collection began last February, when he received one of the cards announcing that his father, who lives in Gulf port, Miss., had given him a subscription to TIME. The doctor wrote, asking if he could have some more cards. Later he sent a letter of explanation and a picture of his reasons (see above...
When the first card arrived, wrote Dr. Crane, he decided to take it to the children's tuberculosis ward of his mission hospital. There, he strung the cutouts from a nail driven into one of the roughhewn beams of the wall. The decoration "was an instantaneous success," he reported. "The patients, all of them abandoned orphans and most of them under two years of age, were fascinated with the new toy as the nurses dangled it over the beds and cribs that fill the wood-floored ward . . . Now, with enough cards to string from one end of the room...
...trip to Chonju, TIME Correspondent James Greenfield visited Dr. Crane and reported on some of the work he is doing. Some of the children in his hospital are found wandering the city streets, abandoned by parents and relatives; some are simply dropped at the hospital's large, white wooden gates. A few weeks ago, the doctor found a baby who had been left on the seat of his parked jeep. The mission, built to accommodate 30 patients, now houses 150, of which 65 are homeless orphans...
Defense Secretary Charles Wilson has now bought the Air Force argument. He has approved a new $10,000,000 loan for Titanium Metals Corp to expand its pilot plant, and a $26 million loan for Chicago's Crane Co. to build the biggest titanium plant yet planned, near Nashville...