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Among the new recruits in the U.S. Army last week was a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who, as he enlisted, was as awed and quiet as any other rookie of 19. But Wesley T. Shirai was already a veteran of one of the century's major horrors. On Aug. 6, 1945, a boy of 14, he was walking along a street in Hiroshima when the atom bomb went off; the right side of his body, which faced the atom flash, still bears its scars...
...Doubtful Future. San Francisco's Dr. John Wesley Cline, 52, the A.M.A.'s new president-elect, who will take office next June, was already in the thick of the fight. Said he: "The future of medicine in this country might well hinge upon the outcome of the congressional elections in November [when the A.M.A. will be spending $1,100,000 in press and radio advertising to combat Government health plans and boost private plans]. This is in no sense a partisan appeal. There are splendid incumbents and candidates in both parties, and there are socializers and apologists...
...after the North Korean Reds invaded South Korea (TIME, July 3), Editor Wesley Izzard of the Amarillo, Texas Globe & News (circ. 60,079) jeered at the Truman Administration for its indecisive policy in the Far East. Wrote Izzard: "Will we go to war over Korea? Not now. Maybe later-many years from now. You see, Russia plans her moves knowing [that we will merely] issue protests and adopt resolutions [while] the Reds will move right along . . ." But the next day, when President Truman ordered U.S. military aid to the South Koreans, astonished Editor Izzard stood up and cheered: "Today...
...congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal of embarrassment." But his brilliant preaching earned Shaw an appointment (1917-31) to Los Angeles Wesley Chapel, the city's fifth largest Methodist church...
Beber, Bernard Arthur, Black, Dwight Priest, Brown, John Wesley, 3d, Curran, Peter Ferguson, Jr., Curran, Robert Louis, Duval, William Carroll, 3d, Ederer, John Hallan, Ferriss, Linoln Stark, Goguen, Norman Paul, Judy, Paul Ray, Kaufman, Harvey, Kimball, John Ward, 3d, Little, James Beach, Lown, Robert George, Macnaughton, John Scott, Mello, Robert Charles (Captain), Perera, Guide Rinaldo, Jr., Pratt, Philip Gorton, Schiff, Gilbert Martin, Stargel, Robert Norman, Toepke, Henry Terrell, Twitchell, Robert Spencer, Albert, J. Brock (Manager...