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There is one authentic yawn stifler in Supper, an inspired import from the British music halls named Tessie O'Shea. The O'Shea is fat and sassy, swoops about like a bat on a binge, and pitches irresistibly into a medley of cockney nostalgia, as in Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army. Tessie O'Shea has no relation whatever to the plot of The Girl Who Came to Supper. Lucky lady...
...Burma Surgeon," Gordon Stifler Seagrave, who is just short of 64 years old, and looks older. Through four decades and many tropical illnesses he has labored at Namkham in northeastern Burma, within sight of the China border, 130 miles by the rugged Burma Road from an airport. Dr. Seagrave has made Namkham a legend of effective American aid to an underdeveloped area...
...Ugly Doctor. In 1902, when Gordon Stifler Seagrave was five years old, he decided to become a medical missionary in the Shan States of Burma. Twenty years later, with Johns Hopkins Medical School behind him, he began. The American Baptist Foreign Mission sent him and his wife "Tiny" to take charge of a 20-bed hospital at Namkham, a village near the Chinese border on the not-yet-built Burma Road...
...Medical Missionary Gordon Stifler Seagrave formed a mobile medical unit of four missionary surgeons and 35 nurses when Burma was invaded, organized an emergency ambulance service and put field hospitals where they are most needed. Last fortnight Dr. Seagrave set up temporary shop in the middle of a bomb-wrecked and deserted Burmese town, spent three days & nights at the operating table almost without rest, in his ceaseless effort to save the lives of wounded Chinese soldiers...
...American Legion-which considers Armistice Day as its personal and private property in much the same way that the Grand Army of the Republic once considered Memorial Day-snorted at the very idea of a change. Said Dr. Stifler firmly: "We should celebrate November 11 as the day when the spirit of our free land was really born...