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With the expressed appreciation of Secretary of War Stimson to herald the change, the American Red Cross-Harvard University Hospital has been taken over by the United States Army. The Hospital, located in southern England, will be the central laboratory for United States armed forces in Great Britain...
John Jay McCloy, 47, is a Manhattan lawyer who, as Assistant Secretary of War, is both right-&-left-hand man to Henry L. Stimson. As an old World War I artilleryman, he commands the respect of combat generals, often gives them a useful new idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included...
...diploma at Yale. Son of a noted lawyer and railroader, he married the boss's daughter first, then-after proving his ability with other firms-became a partner in the old banking house of Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Called to Washington in 1940 as special assistant to Secretary Stimson, then made Assistant Secretary of War for Air, he found what he now fondly calls "a hell of a mess." To Bob Lovett, more than any other one man, goes credit for unifying the Air Corps, giving it a chance to design and buy its own equipment for its transformation...
...Works. What makes Sister Kenny's treatment so successful? This question has stumped doctors ever since her amazing number (80%) of recoveries forced them to recognize her unorthodox work. Last week Dr. Philip Moen Stimson of Cornell offered a "rationalization" of the Kenny method in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
From Army camps and hospitals for the past three months have come rumors of a mysterious epidemic of jaundice. (One rumor: 1,500 jaundiced men in famed Walter Reed Hospital.) Last week War Secretary Henry Stimson was ready to talk. Jaundice had indeed attacked the armed forces. There have been 62 deaths, 28,585 hospital cases-4,528 of them overseas. Mr. Stimson hastily added that the disease is not contagious nor dangerous to the civil population. He could not say definitely what the disease is nor what causes it. (Jaundice, usually thought of as a disease, is really...