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Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, a man who makes vast good sense when he confines his conversation to the familiar worlds of industry and production, demonstrated again last week his equally vast ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time "in the wrong place. At Quantico, Va., where he had gathered 150 of his civilian and military defense leaders for the annual review of defense spending, Wilson and newsmen engaged in this exchange...
...MITCHELL Captain, U.S. Navy Yorktown, Va...
...MCDOWELL Fredericksburg, Va...
Some advances on the frontiers of medicine as reported last week to the A.M.A.: ¶Anesthesia for major surgery is usually a complex procedure to kill pain, induce sleep and relax the muscles, and needs half a dozen chemicals. From the Brooklyn VA Hospital, Drs. Henry I. Lipson and Henry R. Bradford reported that they can achieve all three results more simply by giving a narcotic, alpha-prodine, in combination with a narcotic antagonist to cut down the danger of arresting the breathing mechanism. In 78 cases of major surgery (including 22 in the abdomen, 5 in the heart...
Beyond the Call. In St. Marys, W. Va., after the operator refused to return his dime when he complained of a poor connection, Truck Driver Myles Milton yanked the phone off the wall, smashed it on the floor, told police: "I was tired...