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Springs, now a smoothly running, richly endowed sanatorium. His assistant, Dr. Charles Edwin ("Ed") Irwin, 36, became the institution's new Surgeon-in-Chief. Dr. Michael Hoke, 62, happily hunted for an Atlanta office door upon which he could once more have his solitary, independent name glued in letters of gold...
Earlier birds than the tired Landonites next day were Attorney General Thomas Cheney of New Hampshire and James Irwin, stanch pluggers for Colonel William Franklin Knox. Right after breakfast they set out to see what last-minute hope there might be for their man. Their reward was a 74-to-1 vote for Knox at the Pennsylvania delegation's morning caucus. That made the Vandenberg acclamation impossible. The rest was easy. At the Convention, Governor Bridges nominated Colonel Knox, Chairman Snell read the Vandenberg message, and the acclaim fixed for the latter went to the former...
...correct that the first issue of the Congressional Medal of Honor was to the Andrew raiders, for service in April 1862 (TIME, Me 18). But Surgeon Bernard J. D. Irwin received one in January 1864 for a deed done in February 1861. Therefore, he was the first, as to date of action...
Bury the Dead (by Irwin Shaw; Alex Yokel, producer) made its author famed before it was given a full-fledged production. A 23-year-old Brooklynite, Irwin Shaw had previously distinguished himself chiefly as a third-rate semiprofessional football player and writer of the "Dick Tracy" radio child thriller. Last autumn he heard about the radical New Theatre League's play contest. Bury the Dead was not finished in time to compete, but Playwright Shaw took his script to the League's Manhattan headquarters when he completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts...
Second sight of Bury the Dead confirmed critical opinion that Irwin Shaw is a comer. His play is a passionate rewrite of Austrian Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun, produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931. During "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night," a burial detail of U. S. soldiers is shocked when six corpses rise from their trench grave, refuse to be interred. "Maybe," guesses one of the living dead, "there's too many of us under the ground now. Maybe the earth can't stand it no more...