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Last week Director Boone, 65 and ailing, prepared to step down after four years on the job. His hand-picked successor: Dr. William S. Middleton, 65, former dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and military medico of long standing (he served on loan to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in World War I, as colonel in the Army Medical Corps in Europe during World...
White Elephants & Research. To ease Newcomer Middleton's task and cut future costs, President Eisenhower last month ordered VA treatment for non-service-connected ailments ended for men entering the service after Feb. 1. Even so, some 21,300,000 veterans (plus 3,200,000 others still in the armed forces) stay eligible for the old free treatment; indeed, the VA hospital patient load is expected to increase 4% next year...
...Bernard Herrmann teamed up to produce a musical Christmas Carol. Fredric March harrumphed and hammed as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone clanked and groaned as Marley's ghost and, although there were occasional tuneful moments, most Dickens' fanciers recoiled from the sight of the Spirit-of-Christmas-Present (Ray Middleton) bursting into operetta-like arias. In Manhattan, no viewer had an excuse for missing Scrooge since an excellent 1951 British film, starring Alistair Sim, was shown 16 times during the week over WOR-TV. On Christmas Day, the film's eight sponsors graciously let it be shown three times...
Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Harpo Marx, Anna Maria Alber-ghetti, Ray Middleton, Ilona Massey...
Wear & Tear. In San Antonio, held on suspicion of robbery, Robert Middleton asked officials to transfer him from the city jail to the county jail, complained that he was living in unsanitary conditions, had to eat poor food, at night could not sleep because of the noise made by newly jailed drunks...