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Most people get restless now and then, but among many good newsmen, restlessness is a chronic occupational malady. One reporter so afflicted is Ramelle C. MaCoy, who was sending his dispatches to TIME from Guatemala a year ago, from Korea six months later, and who will be filing his stories from Buenos Aires in a week or two. He will take over from Frank Shea, who returns to the U.S. this month after an eventful year in the Argentine capital...
...middle 30s, he was loaded with Old World charm. From his voluble talk, it appeared that he was a devoted scientist and surgeon, educated at European universities. About his specialty, plastic surgery, he seemed to know all there was to know. Since plastic surgery is a virgin field in Guatemala, several doctors gratefully accepted his services as a consultant...
Lanza made friends outside medical circles, too. Within a few months after his arrival in Guatemala in mid-1950, he and his personable Italian wife had struck up a warm friendship with Defense Minister
Bones & Boasts. At the hospital, Lanza avoided run-of-the-ward tasks. He devoted his energies and talents to persuading his superiors that what Guatemala needed was a bone bank for surgical grafts. As a result, a delegation of Mexican officers and doctors journeyed to Guatemala last October to attend the inauguration of the country's first bone bank-six small glass jars of frozen bone fragments...
Slings & Arrows. Aghast at these antics, the doctors began to probe into Lanza's past. They found that during his two years as a "surgeon"' in the New World (he spent eight months in Venezuela and Colombia before going to Guatemala), he had never produced a single document to show that he had attended any medical school. Instead of the "200 successful operations" he claimed to have performed in Guatemala, he had actually done only eleven, not all successful. But he had gathered in far more than eleven fees, by collecting from prospective patients in advance...