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...Atlantic City's big Convention Hall last week milled some 10,000 doctors, a handful in major's and colonel's uniforms, the majority in Palm Beach suits. They were members of the American Medical Association, in 93rd annual convention assembled-having a last, five-day fling before they abandoned their practices and specialties for war work...
...number on their chests. To a tired, jittery "boot," a session with the psychiatrist is like walking the plank. Wary examiners, said Lieut. Harris, are suspicious of boys who speak up first (normal boys are silent until the doctor questions them), those who fail to close the door, or fling down their papers on the table. But regional differences, said the Lieutenant, must be accounted for: a down-east boy might be considered psychotic in The Bronx...
...dance is traditionally the Seniors' last fling at College life. This year's event will be held in the Lowell House Dining Room, lasting from 10 to 3 o'clock. At midnight the dancing will be broken by a feast, while soft drinks will be available throughout the evening...
...Administration is going to have another fling at making sense of its patchwork of press and information bureaus. Plans for it were cooking last week. It was a plan of Rooseveltian caliber; and it added more alphabet to the soup...
Londoners began to prophesy that within three months Sir Stafford Cripps would have talked himself either into Winston Churchill's job or out of the Cabinet. For the fourth successive week he was having a fling. Warmed by the success of his maiden speech as Leader of the Commons (TIME, March 9), the Red Squire last week begged the United Nations to snuggle more closely into bed. "After the victory," he said, "let us remain in the same gallant company to rebuild a stricken world upon the foundations of justice and equality that will secure for us, for them...