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Last week, 48 hours after he was named medical director of the Veterans Administration, six-foot, 63-year-old Dr. Paul Budd Magnuson came out of his corner fighting. He announced that he was sending to the American Medical Association a list of private physicians suspected of overcharging .the Government for treating veteran outpatients...
Crimson basketball hopes for victory in the game with Bradley Tech tonight at 9:30 o'clock in the Boston Garden took a decided jump yesterday as the Ivy League Rules Committee finally came through with an affirmative vote on the eligibility of Walt McCurdy, six-foot guard who was named most valuable player in the Navy for his stellar role with the armed service championship Iowa Seahawks last year...
...Isolde. Last week, looking for someone to fill one big gap, the Metropolitan served up a real Thanksgiving turkey. To share buxom Helen Traubel's Wagnerian roles (so that Traubel could concertize for half the season), the Met had imported a six-foot, 200-pound German soprano named Erna Schleuter. Opposite her, as Tristan in the season's first Tristan und Isolde, was German Tenor Max Lorenz, who had not been heard at the Met since...
Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
...six-foot boxer, footballer, and swimmer who likes basketball and goes skiing on winter weekends, regrets that he has no time now to finish his law. "I don't think I'd ever use it, but I'd sure like to do some more studying there...