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...through a course leading to a doctorate of science. Head of this low-cost educational project-an extension of both Los Angeles University's College of Psychiatry and Golden State University of Los Angeles-was curly-haired, thoughtful-looking, 24-year-old, self-styled "Vice Dean" George William Manus. His sideburns and the drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should...
...been a tough fight. It would be rugged until the last Jap was off Los Negros. But the main objectives had been captured. Momote airfield, swiftly taken, had been rehabilitated and U.S. fighter craft were operating from its strip in support of forward units. Jap shore batteries on nearby Manus Island had been silenced by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's navy and supply-burdened LSTs were unloading without enemy interference. One of the first Navy shipments: fresh beef to supplement the Army's K-rations...
Chief objective of the landing was Momote airfield, a base from which to strike at: 1) Rabaul (see p. 19); 2) Manus, the largest of the Admiralty group; 3) Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea, which the Japs are believed to be hopefully developing into a base that might be strong enough to guard their East Indies lifeline...
...same kind of warfare which unnerved U.S. troops on New Georgia last July. More Japs arrived from nearby Manus Island. Still the cavalrymen held...
...further irritation to Dr. Cutter & friends was Dr. Meyer's associate, Warden Manus McCloskey, no doctor but a retired brigadier-general of the U. S. Army, appointed to hospital post by the Board of Cook County Commissioners...