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According to some of the local politicos, BMOC's, and Maize and Blue football squad members, here's the way they will line up: As line coach, it looks like Forrest "Butch" Jordan, currently listed as assistant line coach in the Ann Arbor pigskin picture. The former letterman guard and ex-Western Conference wrestling champion, when asked if he planned to follow Valpey to Harvard, said, "I only wish I know...
Ozzie has always had an appetite for action. He was the youngest Eagle Scout in New Jersey (and won a trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...
...Letterman was medical chief of McClellan's Army of the Potomac. He developed the first organized ambulance corps, which passed its first test at the Battle of Antietam. The corps removed from the battlefield, in 24 hours, all of the 12,000 Union and Confederate wounded within the Union lines...
...Letterman went on to develop the system of division field hospitals (and hospitals at railheads and embarkation points) which remained the basic structure of military medical care through World War II. But he died in comparative obscurity, seven years after the Civil War's end. "Compared with what Letterman did for the wounded soldier," says Hawley, "the contributions of Florence Nightingale seem small...
...Named for the Army's late Surgeon General William Crawford Gorgas, whose medical battle against yellow fever in the jungle made possible the building of the Panama Canal. *Who is not unsung. His name lives in the U.S. Army's Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco's Presidio...