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Edwin and Irwin Rietz, twins and 21, were drafted together a year ago in Rock Island, Ill. They were shipped to Korea together as medical corpsmen in the 40th Infantry Division. Neither got a chance to treat a battle case until Jan. 3, on the first anniversary of their induction...
That wintry morning, Corpsman Irwin Rietz was on duty in his first-aid station, close to the front line. Through the crump of enemy mortars, he heard a G.I. shout, "Medic . . . medic," and raced to the shallow trench where his first combat casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet had fallen over his face; blood oozed from a jagged hole in his breast. Irwin concentrated on all the things he had been taught to do. "Take it easy, Mac," said Corpsman Rietz as he ripped open the blood-soaked flak jacket and pressed dressings on the wound...
...Then I saw his face," said Irwin afterwards. "It was Edwin...
...Irwin Rietz followed his twin's stretcher to a forward field hospital, stood outside while doctors worked to staunch the blood flow. A few minutes later a doctor came...
...IRWIN HOFFMAN, a successful Manhattan portraitist who has been out of sight for six years studying the old masters' techniques, at last is ready to show off the results. His 26 formal portraits seem as relaxed and unposed as snapshots; his subjects are caught speaking, smiling, playing. Two of the smoothest: a winning study of a redheaded youngster totally absorbed in playing with watercolors, a musician's wife leaning attentively forward as if listening to chamber music...