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...string of decorations. He has got around-as a sort of Air Forces diplomat. He got along with the Russians, helped persuade them to give the Allies bomber bases. He got along with the British as Eisenhower's deputy air commander in London (the British refer to his tactical planning as "outstanding"). He was at the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences...
...Schiller, Tobias Smollett, George Crabbe, Robert Bridges, Francis Thompson, and Lieut. Colonel John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) were also medical men. So was Thomas Dunn English, the man who wrote Ben Bolt. Most of these writers were doctors only incidentally, and almost none of their poems in the anthology refer to medicine (exception: Holmes's The Morning Visit...
...other fowl (sometimes even ordinary hens) carry a virus similar to that of psittacosis, the much dreaded parrot disease. Both viruses produce a virus pneumonia, but the parrot virus is much more dangerous, usually killing about 18% of its victims. Both behave so much alike that medical men now refer to all bird-borne virus pneumonias as ornithosis, and call both viruses "members of the psittacosis group...
Alas. With the money in the hands of a neutral party, they refer me to Yank magazine's figures on the casualties...
...your Dec. 4 issue, you refer to the appointment of a Mathew W. Bullock to the Chairmanship of the Massachusetts Parole Board...