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Good Neighbor Doctors. Tulane does not claim to be a great research school (tropical disease research goes on at many Government-financed laboratories). Tulane's chief interest is in preventive tropical medicine. Matter-of-fact Dr. Faust says the first step in protecting the U.S. is to prevent soldiers abroad from getting tropical diseases, the second step is to prevent the diseases from spreading. Most Tulane postgraduates are men strategically placed to do something about tropical-disease prevention: they are either 1) Army doctors or 2) civilian doctors who teach in other medical schools (their tuition is paid...
...roundabout routes, they flew to Eglin Field, Fla. Lieut, (now Captain) Ted Lawson picked up four men on the way. There was matter-of-fact Dean Davenport, co-pilot ("I liked the way he flew"), Charles McClure, navigator, Bob Clever, bombardier, and David Thatcher, gunner-engineer. "Without realizing it, I had picked my crew. . . ." The crews, swelled to 140 men, crowded the Operations Office to hear Major James Doolittle: "If you men have any idea that this isn't the most dangerous thing you've ever been on, don't even start this training period...
...MacKenzie, a matter-of-fact student who enters the household by way of the University Employment Service, washing dishes and cleaning up after one of Professor Maury's teas...
...Matter-of-fact Olaf Gerhard Thörnell, Commander in Chief of all Swedish armed forces, has 600,000 men at his command. The standard yardstick allows about half of these as combat divisions, but more could be mobilized in a pinch. Sweden has plenty of small arms, Swedish-made Bofors anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. The army is well trained, but not battle-tested. It lacks sufficient tanks and heavy armaments, is woefully weak in fighter planes, which were ordered from the U.S. in 1940 but later diverted to China. When German military power was at its height...
...Allied and Axis troops faced each other in the muddy hills and olive groves of western North Africa last week, a U.S. military spokesman made clear for the first time the outline of the bloody, so far unsuccessful campaign to capture Tunisia. The dry, matter-of-fact voice, broadcasting from London, left out many details. But, added to the fragmentary dispatches that have passed censorship (see p. 58), it told enough. If the campaign had succeeded, it would have been a military coup. "It was a slender chance which failed...