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Last week, on its 175th birthday, the Medical Service of the U.S. Army was, in the words of Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss, "in the most difficult place it has ever been in-Korea." Over the years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics...
There have been some complaints about red tape and delays, chiefly against dentists, who must get an O.K. from their Dental Estimates Board before starting expensive dental work. Said one dentist last week: "Sometimes it's a damned nuisance getting authority from some pipsqueak on the board before you can start a job, but I admit there are some chaps who would yank out a mouthful of teeth for the profit they get on the dentures. So in a socialized service I suppose we've got to put up with some interference...
...They say they're against people who push people around. Well, I'm people! My name is Norman Corwin, just like anybody else. In a tizzy I called Ralph Ingersoll. 'Hello! Ralph! Baby!' I said, very formally, 'Would you be interested in running my pipsqueak paragraphs for free? I promise not to mention my Technicolor trap [nor] the 50 girls with the 49 costumes.'-O.K., elephant boy,' said Ralph...
...diseases go, German measles (rubella) is pipsqueak stuff. The rash fades quickly, rarely lasts longer than three days. But last week, Dr. Murray H. Bass of Manhattan had some things to say about German measles which sent many a matron scurrying to her medical books for symptoms (mild fever, spots...
...Crux. Absorbed in such social projects, the Government had a narrow escape in the press-law controversy. Though the new bill was only mildly restrictive (nothing like the law it replaced), reactionary papers like El Comercio and La Prensa and the pipsqueak smear-sheets that Latins call pasquines rebelled most at the requirement that they publish a statement of ownership, stirred up the fuss that ended in the Plaza scuffle...