Word: lavine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAVIN...
Hopp now has totaled 23 completions, seven against Dartmouth, to move ahead of Penn's John Lavin with 20. Dave McLaughlin of Dartmouth leads in touchdown pass completions with...
...draftee from the Midwest, was checking off on a pocket calendar the days before he would go home. Then the Communists struck. Tom was not hurt, but he got sick. He vomited, ached all over and shook like a leaf. He was soon passed back to Psychiatrist Lavin of the 7th Division...
...half ashamed, but half hoping that he had something to save him from more front-line duty. Captain Lavin, an ex-sergeant (medical corps), knew the signs. He told Tom: "I used to be an enlisted man myself." But he went on: "There's nothing the matter with you-all you need is rest." Hot food, a hot shower, hot water for shaving and a night under blankets worked wonders. After listening to other men who had had it worse than he had, and another friendly chat with Lavin, Tom went up front again...
...Captain Lavin sums up the Army's current policy in crisp G.I. language: "Nobody is going to chicken out if I can help it." Roughly four-fifths of Korea's psychiatric cases now go back promptly to combat. Nearly all the rest get forward duty in service companies. And the system works: of the men returned to duty after up-forward psychiatric care, only 10% have to come back for more...