Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D. (331 pp.)-Leo Rosten-Harper...
...hero of a series of New Yorker stories by Leo Rosten, was a bemused Jewish immigrant who thought the discoverer of the laws of gravity was Isaac Newman...
...Rosten has published a novel. Its hero is a World War II Air Corps doctor whose name is Newman and, according to one of his peers, "he acts as if it were Newton." Or perhaps just N*E*W*M*A*N. At any rate, he is brilliant, engaging, confident, commanding, twice the size of life, and certainly the most revved-up psychiatrist who ever helped a patient recover from the terrors of the wild blue yonder...
...background is the southwestern American desert and a training base for fighter pilots and gunners. In the foreground is a section of the base hospital called Ward 7, known to the top brass as Sunnybrook Farm and to its inmates as Psycho Beach. There Captain Josiah J. Newman, M.D., fights his war against "everything from tics to combat fatigue," depending chiefly on his own central intelligence and flak-juice (Pentothal Sodium) as his principal weapons...
...Hustler. A morality play in a poolroom, brilliantly directed by Robert Rossen, vigorously played by Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason...