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Living Legend. At 41, Frank Herrington, a hefty (198 lbs.), lighthearted medic, is a famed old China hand. When Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times was in Chungking, he described Herrington's reputation as "stupendous." Like many a U.S. country doctor, Herrington ministered to rich & poor alike; paid for treatment of a ricksha boy out of his own pocket, carried a gold watch inscribed...
Incalculable importance has been attached to Professor Edwin J. Cohn's research in plasma-fractionation processes as well as to the relief of the armed forces' medic shortage by 487 doctors graduated from the Medical School in ASTP or V-12 training programs...
...medic will be sent overseas who is over 40, or has already served abroad...
...exhausted Japanese was sleeping when the medic reached him at the fringe of the prisoners, and he woke him by tapping the little man on the head with his scissors. The prisoner sat up quickly, bowing and forcing little smiles. The doctor took one look, turned to Bach and said: "Let's get him out of here tonight. He looks like he's in an advanced stage of tuberculosis...
...pint-sized medic tries to lift a husky wounded G.I., yells "Gimmee a hand, somebody." The G.I. (played by a one-armed veteran) promptly offers his own "blown off" hand...