THE CONGRESS: Doing Nicely

There was a certain sameness to the daily medical bulletins issued from the Bethesda Naval Medical Center last week. Senator Joe McCarthy's right elbow trouble, diagnosed as bursitis, was responding satisfactorily to treatment. It took Joe himself to give some variety to the terse announcements.

An I.N.S. photographer found McCarthy propped up in bed in blue pajamas, swathed in bandages from his tuberositas deltoidea to his ossa metacarpalia. Joe told the photographer that doctors had "operated on the elbow to take out pieces of glass," presumably stuck there when Joe banged his arm against a table while shaking hands with an...

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