Word: rusk
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...institute, the first of its kind, for rehabilitation of the civilian disabled. A joint venture of the hospital and New York University's College of Medicine (which are raising $2,500,000 to give the institute a building of its own), it is directed by Dr. Howard A. Rusk, who ran the A.A.F.'s wartime convalescence program. The institute, Rusk explained, hopes to spur a nation-wide attack on a problem greater than that of disabled veterans: disabled civilians. During World War II, seven times as many civilians as G.I.s became amputees...
When Dr. Howard A. Rusk got into the Army, he was appalled to see hospital convalescents lolling around with nothing to do. So the tall, good-looking Lieutenant Colonel, who used tu practice in St. Louis, teach at Washington University Medical School, got permission from his superiors to start a little recreation and reconditioning program for convalescents at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. He provided exercises graduated according to the sick soldiers' ability, and courses such as camouflage, airplane-model building, mathematics and (for illiterates) handwriting...
...Surgeon General David Grant and General H. H. Arnold soon installed the system in all A.A.F. hospitals, with Dr. Rusk in charge (TIME, April 26). It now affects about 60,000 men in 259 hospitals. Convalescents have made thousands of plane models, practiced sending and receiving radio code while still in bed, planted 200 Victory gardens, studied 50 languages and dialects, done exercises graduated from toe-wiggling in bed to ten-mile hikes with full packs. The hospitals find that under the A.A.F. system 1) 25% fewer men have relapses; 2) convalescence from certain acute, contagious diseases (e.g., virus pneumonia...
With this experience behind him, Colonel Rusk was taking on an extra job last week. He has charge of rehabilitating all Air Forces casualties returned from over seas, many of whom, when fit again, will go on to the Air Forces new Redistribution Program (TIME, Nov. 8). To handle these men the Air Forces has eight rehabilitation centers, from Coral Gables to Spokane. By last week-the program has just begun-the first 50 men had gone through. Like the thousands who will follow, they fall into two main groups...
...Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Major Howard A. Rusk, now head of the Army Air Forces' reconditioning program, laid out the schooling with courses in chemical warfare, camouflage, radio, model aircraft building, mathematics and a special course for illiterate soldiers. At Dale Mabry Field in Florida, convalescents' courses range from identification of Japanese air craft to Arctic warfare. Officers, their wives, Red Cross workers and college professors lecture on such subjects as "Our Latin American Neighbors" and "How to Keep in Fighting Trim in Africa." The Army has made the happy discovery that such work not only makes better...