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...MAKING OF A SURGEON by William A. Nolen, M.D. 269 pages. Random House...
Having been a member of the 3rd Armored Division (Spearhead) prior to separation from active duty with the United States Army in September of 1958, I have my doubts about the effectiveness of Staff Sergeant Nolen's telephone report of trouble on the Iron Curtain border...
From a pine-covered knoll near Hof (pop. 60,000) in central Germany, five G.I.s of Bravo Company. 2nd U.S. Armored Cavalry, last week stood watchful guard on a section of the Iron Curtain. Staff Sergeant William S. Nolen Jr.. 21. of Mt. Holly. N.C.. in charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close...
...Sergeant Nolen squinted through his spotterscope at two Communist observation towers on the opposite side, talked to a TIME correspondent about the 19 East Germans who recently escaped into his sector. "Gives me the creeps, this place." muttered one of Nolen's men. "What a helluva life it must be on the other side...
...Inquirer management had expected to clear out only its deadwood, it lost more than it asked for. Many of its best men walked out-with as much as $12,000 in bonus and severance pay. Among those that left: respected Medical Editor Joseph Nolen, Rewritemen Kos Semonski and John St. George Joyce, both nominees for Philadelphia Press Association awards for 1958. In all, the paper poured out an estimated $400,000 in resignation...