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...Army retirement pay) . He will find his potential practice nine times bigger than it was. In the VA he had 4,000,000 patients ; there are now 29,250,000 members in Blue Cross, 7,250,000 in Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only eight years to reach 100,000,000 members; at Blue Shield's present rate...
...success of voluntary medical prepayment plans, Larsen asserted, is an adequate answer to advocates of compulsory Government health insurance measures like the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill. He also tossed a few barbed statistics at the Federal Government: only 300,000 of the 2,000,000 federal employees now participate in Blue Cross plans "because of the difficulties of handling subscription payments without the cooperation of the employer. ... In this important instance the much-maligned American businessman is way ahead of a federal Administration which has preached medical protection for the low-income wage-earner for the past 15 years...
...late J. P. Morgan died in 1943. TIME Inc. is controlled by the stockholdings of its officers and employees; the two largest shareholders are Editor in Chief Luce and President Larsen...
...main reason for the Blue successes this year is embodied in their attack duo of Swede Larsen and Winnie Lovejoy. This combine has been unstoppable so far this year and is expected to be the main threat to Harvard's chances for undisputed possession of the runner-up position in the league standings...
...basketball game saw Branford, sparked by "Wolf" Larson, overcome a 17 to 9 deficit at halftime to knot the count with six minutes to play. But the Bellboys' modified zone defense, which kept Mike Post or Dana Bresnahan on Larsen while placing the remaining four players in a diamond formation, broke the back of the Branford attack, and the Bellboys won going away...