Word: hyland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the baseball season ends, Doc Hyland's busiest season begins. For nine weeks, ailing ballplayers have come to his St. Louis office to see the man known as "baseball's surgeon-general." Dr. Robert Hyland has a physician's professional reticence about discussing patients; besides, baseball's big winter meetings are coming up. "Some of the men are liable to be up for trading," said...
Back in 1938, he had examined Dizzy Dean's great pitching arm, found Dizzy a victim of bursitis, and predicted that his pitching days were numbered. Shortly afterwards, the St. Louis Cardinals sold Dizzy to the Chicago Cubs for $185,000, even though the Cubs knew of Dr. Hyland's findings. Last week three of the doctor's patients were easily identifiable as Cardinals. It was no secret either that the 1949 pennant hopes of the New York Giants would rise or fall on how skillfully Doc Hyland carved a bone growth from Catcher Walker Cooper...
Between helping the injured, working his camera, and taking his story notes, Mydans found plenty of evidence why the people of Fukui held the American military governor, Lt. Col. James Hyland, in such high regard. In socks and undershorts, Hyland's instant command was "set up a first aid station on the lawn"-where broken and bleeding Japanese flocked even before the second quake hit a few minutes later. Then, when it was discovered that all communication was cut off, he ordered three reconnaissance teams to fight their way out of the city, and not to come back until...
...Hyland, he wrote, insisted that the Japanese be given full credit for their magnificent behavior throughout the crisis, but actually the Colonel himself and his team of 10 officers and 17 men served as the main rallying point for the crushed and stunned natives. (One of Hyland's staff, a young officer who drove an army truck up a blazing driveway where Mydans was shooting pictures, leaped out, tossed some cans of gasoline in the truck and backed out furiously, shouting at Mydans, "looks like you found a story." He turned out to be former TIME circulation department worker...
Shortly before midnight I accompanied Colonel Hyland on a mission to clear the road from the city for incoming aid. With the heat of the street scorching the soles of our feet and smoke bringing tears to our eyes, we walked through the bright red city. We passed Japanese firemen trying to pump water from the palace moat, the only remaining source in the whole city. After the B-29s, people had taken refuge in the waters of the moat, hoping to escape the flames; hundreds of bodies had been found there. The people of Fukui say that tonight...