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...experience." But the American Medical Association, whose headquarters is Chicago, believes that all interns should taper off into actual practice with at least 80 hours of medical lectures during internship. Over this point Cook County's Dr. Meyer and A.M.A.'s education secretary, Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter, wrangled often. Dr. Meyer budged not a scalpel's length. Consequently, four years ago, the A.M.A. dropped Cook County from its list of approved hospitals, thus automatically cutting off Dr. Meyer's supply of interns from topflight medical schools...
...further irritation to Dr. Cutter & friends was Dr. Meyer's associate, Warden Manus McCloskey, no doctor but a retired brigadier-general of the U. S. Army, appointed to hospital post by the Board of Cook County Commissioners...
...contrast to most comedians, finds that the movies handicap him in no way. To replace the absence of personal contact with an audience, each scene is shot several times. Each take requires a different interpretation by the comedian, and the best of these is selected for release by the cutter. Although the hours are long and the work hard, Lahr has enjoyed his work in motion pictures--especially the part of the cowardly lion in the "Wizard...
...almost dawn before the sea abated, the 73 most seriously injured administered to, black eyes, minor hurts treated, and the confusion partially unscrambled. Summoned by radio, the Coast Guard cutter Alexander Hamilton put medical supplies aboard by means of a rocket gun and line...
...main methods of minesweeping: 1) towing a serrated cable between two ships, which cuts mine cables or ropes when engaged, 2) a single ship towing two cables held away from its bow and deep in the water by "paravanes" (torpedo-shaped bodies with wings and pontoons and cutter). Method No. 2 is slower: the trawler travels an average of twelve knots and the path swept is only about 200 yards. Chief drawback of method No. 1 is breakage of the sweeper cable...