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...Zeros at the Battle of Midway. "The squadron was like a raw egg thrown into an electric fan, and only three men came out of the action alive." Reformed, Torpedo 8 was flung straight into the Battle for the Solomons under the leadership of ardent, painstaking "Swede" Larsen. Armed with stubby Grumman Avengers, Torpedo 8 changed its old slogan from "Attack" to "Attack-and Vengeance...
Hawaiian Swede. The man back of this triumph of paternalism over disease is big, redheaded, Swedish-born Dr. Nils Paul Larsen, Medical Director of Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, mountain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors...
Intelligent Selfishness. Dr. Larsen has removed many frills from medical care, but has also added many preventive measures not used elsewhere...
...Queens Hospital has been a proving ground for new treatments. Says Dr. Larsen: "The literature and the drug houses often exploit something that eventually proves to be worthless. We were able to publish the first adverse report in America on the uselessness of mercurochrome as a specific cure for streptococcus infections...
...Larsen thinks they have proved that "intelligent selfishness" pays. But in the plantation doctors' own periodical, Plantation Health, he expresses the fear that under postwar free trade these standards could not economically be maintained...