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Mon Dec 10 21:57:45 GMT 2007

In a message dated 10-Dec-07 10:33:40 Central Standard Time, pbjorn at emh.org  
writes:

Winner  of this week's Obscure Reference award.

Dr. Hooker/Hornberger was, by  all accounts, one of the finest kind.  Got
thoroughly screwed by 20th  Century Fox.  

Did you know he was among the first bariatric  surgeons?

Pret

No, I didn't...I thought that he ended up as a chest cutter...since he was  
supposed to *BE* Hawkeye...

And Ace Paperbacks reportedly didn't do so well by either Dr. Hooker or  
William E. Butterworth (better known as W.E.B. Griffith) in terms of paying off  
on the paperback royalties...

(Yes, at one time I owned the entire series...of which only three were  
actually penned by Dr. H.)

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO FAAFP

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