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...first patients lived in log cabins like the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born, 15 miles from New Haven. To reach them, over rugged trails, Dr. Greenwell often had to leave the buggy and go on horseback. Sometimes he had to walk. He has also answered calls by rowboat and switch engine. Even when roads had been so improved that Dr. Greenwell could make calls by car, many of his patients had to be treated in their out-of-the-way homes because there was no hospital near by. Not until 1951 did Dr. Greenwell succeed in getting...
Cinemactress Shelley Winters, whose rowboat scene in A Place in the Sun helped make her an Oscar candidate two years ago, ran through the scene once again during her nightclub debut in San Diego. Wearing a "figure-clutching," ivory brocade dress, Shelley also warbled a few songs (Find Me a Primitive Man) well enough to win a cheer ("Socko") from Variety. But she was so sure she had done poorly after the first show that she burst into tears backstage. "I went out on the nightclub floor," she said, "and saw all those faces and asked myself, 'What...
...Says he: "There are more pleasure boats in the water than ever before. Once a yachtsman was a rich man who owned a big yacht with a paid crew. All that is changed now. A yachtsman today is anybody that owns a pleasure boat larger than a rowboat. The small yachtsman is the backbone of yachting...
...recent visit to New York, Atwood told about the most troublesome story he had ever worked on for TIME. It happened near Cordova, Alaska, and involved two boys in a rowboat, who had taken a potshot at an "empty" shed on shore. The shed turned out to be packed with dynamite and was blown skyhigh. Atwood received a long list of questions about the incident. But Cordova was 250 miles and a three-day boat trip away. So he relayed the wire to a friend there, sent the answers back to New York. Discrepancies in the story turned...
Died. Francis Patrick Matthews, 65, onetime Ambassador to Ireland (1951-52) and Secretary of the Navy (1949-51), who confessed that his only nautical experience was with "a rowboat at my summer home"; of a heart attack; in Omaha. His big job as Navy Secretary: joining President Truman in quelling the 1949 "revolt of the admirals," who feared loss of Navy power in the new strategic war planning. Matthews ousted Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations and, distrusting Navy channels, personally summoned to Washington (by commercial airline in civilian clothes) the Mediterranean's Sixth Task Fleet...