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Numerous tackles of all shapes and sizes cavorted at Soldiers Field yesterday, but some of them, like Chet Pierce and large Verne Miller, were unfit for action tomorrow. At the end of the practice, Dick Harlow was wondering how long the others would last against the Big Gree. "I'm not exactly up in the clouds," was Dick's comment...
...former Vice-President called for the resignations of Secretary Forrestal and Assistant Secretary Lovett, charging that as former investment bankers they were unfit for high office at a time when their decisions may mean the difference between war and peace. he was correct in his assumption that a banker will retain a banker;s way of thinking after he has assumed government office. But the same could be said of any other profession. The decisions of even the most scrupulously honest administrators are influenced by their economic and social interests. The most valid attack on administration policy is to refute...
...impudence that he ordered the comedian court-martialed. The Army had to bail Jack out by promising to exile him to Okinawa. "But they couldn't do that," cackles Paar. "I found out later that some friendly doctor had written all across my record, 'Unstable, Positively Unfit for Front-Line Duty.' Best friend I ever...
When all of the above methods of curing fail, and a player is deemed unfit for contact work, he becomes a "cripple" and joins the special rehabilitation group. To get these men back into the lineup as quickly as possible, Cox employs a set of exercises specially tailored to fit the particular requirements of each man. Shoulder cases, for example, are put to work doing pushups until finally they are able to walk around on their hands...
...decided that it was unethical for a doctor "to promise radical cures" or to obtain patients by "gaining the attention of the public." Its Journal has fought to raise and preserve medical ethics-and has always been suspicious of newfangled notions. In 1871 an A.M.A. president found women "totally unfit" to be doctors (the first woman was admitted to A.M.A. five years later). The Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones. It launched crusades for a "Safe & Sane" Fourth of July...