Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1938 — Page 14

MONDAY, JULY 18, 1938 By Williams STAY

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Interne Trouble

By Elinore Cowan Stone

CAST OF CHARACTERS TRAN DEARBORN-—heroine, student nurse. She ran inte love and trouble when she met DR. BOB BENCHLEY—hero, handsome young interne. He had trouble, {oo, keeping up with brilliant DR. STEPHEN SARGENT—head surgeon. Dr. Sargent’s problem was some- | thing else again.

OUT OUR WAY

With Major Hoople

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ALL STEAMED UP AND SOUNDING OFF LIKE A MONDAY MORNING WHISTLE ABOUT SOMETHING!

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SOUNDS LIKE SOME PIRATES TRIED TO BOARD

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Yesterday—In a moment of hilarity, Tran prepares a farcical nursing care report concerning Dr. Sargent. Evervthings turns black hefore her when he begins to read it. How did he get it?

RAN was never to forget the horror of the 10 minutes that followed. In one sickening flash she had realized how this thing had come to happen to her. The morning be- | fore Beula Tagg had volunteered to carry her nursing care report to Miss Armstrong’s office. And on her desk with it had lain, forgotten, that farcical report on the case | of the mythical “X.” Now Dr. Sargent’s clear, fastidious voice was reading it to the end. When he had finished, his cool blue | eves swept the faces of the class, resting for an impartial fraction of a second on Trans before passing on “As T believe I told you,” he said, “the case is not one that has come | under my professional care—nor, so | far as I know’—he coughed—"under that of any of our staff. Therefore 1 may perhaps be permitted more frankness in my comments than I might otherwise use in dis- | cussing the medical handling of a (55 case, Dy “I read to you,” Dr. Sargent went 3 ) A on, “because of several unusual as- | SE 3 / pects of the report. The first is the | F8 5 ’ ! scrupulous reference to the text = . : with which the nurse interlards her : : remarks and explains her own re- Cad = rh actions. The second is the amazing 4 ) | that after 10 years of observa- MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE tion, the case was still lacking a di- 2 ¥ . agnosis, when any police court mag- eg \ \ Tn SEDUCED TO A SMOLDERING SHAMBLES ; | strate should have known at aj - bn SN / | | LD BY THE FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION, lance that the patient was a men- ’ | THE PURPLE SLIPPER IS BENG tal case—a schizothyme with a FOR SURVIVORS OF THE TRAPPED RAID-

marked Napoleonic complex, hover- ING PARTY ing dangerously near demantia | praecox. That this was the nurse's | own opinion is obvious although, quite properly, she does not say so. . . ‘A good nurse does not offer | opinions’ (Nursing Text).” |

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= = = E'S leading up to something diabolical, Tran thought. Oh, | well, if he turned me across his knee | and spanked me, it wouldn't be any | more than I asked for. “Another strange aspect,” Top Sarge was going on, “is that so care- | fully documented a report should | sav no more about treatment than that the nurse repeatedly attempted

“You better sit in the middle of the boat. We're a lot farther from shore than the last time you tried lookin’ glamorous.”

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

WASHINGTON TUBBS II

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to soothe the patient with ‘little A NAME ‘ATLL INSPIRE YOU WITH PRIDE, thoughful attentions,’ I believe was " ; : searen os nA BE: SUCH AS DAUNTLESS OR INVINCIBLE. DN une SELFthe phrase.” He affected to refer to Fis 3 ey 3 SR dann TR wa ; < ia poe WITH PUSHOVERS, the manuscript for corroboration. | REFERS 4 Rk RE Re NAN \\ \ . “Of course, mental illness is outside ! a) LL = the scope of your present experience, but I wonder if anyone hap- | pens to know what treatments are most commonly used in such cases. . Miss—er—" he glanced at the class list before him as if selecting | 2 name : Miss Dearborn?” he said. haps you could tell me?” Tran cleared her throat, but knew that if she cleared it a dozen times her voice would not come. Before | he could pursue the matter further, | however, the bell mercifully ended | the period. Tran would have scurried out of the room without a backward . . 25% \ ‘ glance, but Dr. Sargent called, “Oh, | ; x p J 3 = £5px | PP Pe a rr _Dearborn—just a minute, | ; ; 2 NEGLECTED_WRITNG “Have you ever thought,” he BEFORE THIS, asked, “that fiction writing might | be more exciting than nursing?”

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MUCH WITH ONLY ONE CLAM ! YOU'LL NEED THREE MORE

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I'M THINKING

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still at the ominous implication of his words. | “I thought you might like to de- | stroy the evidence,” he went on, putting the paper into her hands. Why, Tran thought, but—he’s % nl 5 ; really laughing—inside. He doesn’t BF 230m 5 i 25. pi

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simply swell!” Then she did flee. because all| THIS CURIOUS WORLD of a sudden she realized that she adored Dr. Stephen Sargent. x » » F course she knew he would probably never even give her another thought. But that didn't really matter Naturally, when one might contemplate a radiant god—even if only from a remote distance-—one had no time for lesser beings like the Bob Benchlevs of the world. The situation might easily have proved difficult when, early In Tran’'s second vear, she was assigned to duty in Emergency. For young Dr. Benchley had been retained at St. Vincent's as assistant to Dr. Sar- | gent; and it was he who was |

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frequently called to Emergency in an advisory capacity when the internes found themselves beyond their profesisonal depth. But young Dr. Benchley seemed | to have retired with definite finality | to distances of his own. He was | brisk, businesslike, and impersonally s COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. courteous when their paths crossed. | Tran told herself that this was all | very gratifying and exactly as she would have chosen; but she could not help feeling a little piqued by his punctiliously professional manner. At any rate, it made it much simpler to follow the Spartan road | of self-discipline to which she had | dedicated herself. | ® =n &

T would be gratifying to record that Tran developed overnight | into a controlled young nurse who | met all situations with assured | poise. But of course, since she was | Tran, that could not be true. The | occasions were still too frequent on which she had to bite her cheeks | to keep from giggling. And there | ony stop being such a precious litwas the historic day when—unable |, °... " to find a seat in the operating am-! tle idiot. If— | phitheater where Dr. Sargent was| Then he turned crimson, broke | to do something very daring in the | off abruptly, and stalked out of the way of laparotomies—she climbed | room. to a point of vantage in a tree that} But that hadn't meant anything, gave on one of the windows. Tran after all, it appeared; for a day or

ABOUT 2,500,000 BUFFALOES WERE KILLED ANNUALLY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1870 AND 1875.

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> . ke | ‘been alone with a patient when Dr. | Sargent came in. Once he had even smiled at her and said, “Thanks.

That helps a lot,” when she had

moved a light to a better position for him without being asked. It was one stormy afternoon late

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SETS HIM NEATLY FOR THE KILL AND DRIVES IT HOME //!

ABBIE AN' SLATS

THEYVE PULLEDA FAST ONE BY RINGING HIM IN AS A TOOKERVILLE WORKER--BUT HE'S THE WORLDS

F Just FOR THE THRILL O’FIGHTING SLUGGER FEREE, -- HE'S WILLING CLEAR

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placed too much confidence in a rotten limb, and awoke to find herself in bed with two broken ribs, which Dr. Bentley had already set and strapped. When she tried to thank him. he snapped, “Oh, Agility, if you would

| so later Beula Tagg told Tran that | everyone in the hospital was talking about Dr. Benchley's affair with | | Mrs. Maitland, a pretty voung widi ow who had been a patient.

Not that it mattered, for three times in the last month Tran had

in Tran's second year that the ter-

| rible thing happened which threat-

ened to change Trans world com-

| pletely.

(To Bé Continued)

‘All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)