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...Consequences when the U.S. Army asked Edwards to "do something" for the paraplegic soldiers at Birmingham General Hospital. Edwards selected a particularly despondent young soldier and hit on the idea of presenting his life on the air, in order to integrate the wreckage of the present with his happier past and the promise of a hopeful future. Among the people brought before the mike were the boy's old track coach and the head of his draft board. Says Edwards: "It was just a matter of talking it out. Did we help him? Damn right...
...have dropped his story at this point, had it been his intention simply to excoriate the human race for its treatment of those who are physically afflicted. Instead, he presses on in his terse, deadpan prose to teach a lesson to the afflicted of the world as well. The happier Edmond becomes, the more worried he grows. The more his mistress, Anne adores him, the more convinced he is that she must be mad to love a man with a dog's head. He sends her to a psychiatric hospital for treatment; when she comes...
...Christmas to see the troops. The day before Christmas, in a tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating for Billy: "Dr. Graham has such a lion's voice, so much power, and he speaks so rapidly...
...Consumption, which had been for half a century the muse of literature, became a blot on society, the symbol of all that was rotten in the industrial world. Against it, in a great crusade . . . turned the champions of a happier, more smiling life." The change in attitude came at the same time as a great advance in knowledge. Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus and proved what Italians and Spaniards had contended for centuries-that TB is contagious. Many of the greatest authorities on the disease scoffed, and kept on insisting that the taint was hereditary or connected with climate...
...knows, perhaps some other lady is making our son's life a bit happier, be it his maid at college or a field worker in Korea. No matter where youth goes, a Motherly touch certainly helps. Name withheld by request