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Best Friend. In New Haven County, Conn., Ensign Stanley W. Henderson bailed out of a faltering Navy plane, landed unhurt in a tree, climbed down and was bitten in both legs by a waiting...
...A.M.A.'s principal concern was socialized medicine. Instead of letting its incoming president, Louisville's Dr. Elmer Lee Henderson (elected at last year's convention), deliver his inaugural address to a few hundred delegates, the A.M.A. spent $16,500 to broadcast his speech over two national networks. Said Dr. Henderson: "Our affairs are no longer just medical affairs. They have become of compelling concern to all the people...
...Real Objective. Wisely suspecting that the U.S. people are more concerned with their own health and well-being than with technicalities of medical practice, Dr. Henderson broadened the front of A.M.A.'s war against the Truman-Ewing plan for national health insurance (TIME, Feb. 20). He lashed out against "little men whose lust for power is far out of proportion to their intellectual capacity . . . or their political honesty ... It is not just 'socialized medicine' which they seek . . . Their real objective is to strip the American people of self-determination and self-government, and make this a socialist...
...economical. As a young man he disliked paying more than $2 for a shirt, and in the White House he charged Mrs. Harry Hopkins 50? a day for the keep of her poodle. Gunther names the only man who ever called F.D.R. an s.o.b. to his face: Leon Henderson. Myrna Loy was the President's favorite actress, and he loved poker. He saved and filed Christmas cards and he kept the bullet fired at him by an assassin in Miami. When F.D.R. flew to Casablanca, a strong swimmer was brought along to keep him afloat should the plane crash...
Regarding your article concerning my recent efforts to rid Henderson County of rabid foxes [TIME...