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Show III! MP Ml BIS & BABY BENS The most wanted clocks and watches in America come from WESTCLOX. The BENS, Big and Baby have been keeping America on time for over 50 years. The same quality, style and dependability back of this popularity is found in every WESTCLOX watch and clock. 1:1 U c if I ;3 0C s r lOf 8 O'Ctor Si 1 . By MALCOLM DOOLEY 1 As told to Jack Ryan jM Dr. Tom brought medicine to 12 backward countries. .5 G d oolev A Vs '. V. . av S Even as cancer was claiming his Iie, the courageous young medical missionary DADYBEN Tidy handful of clock, nnlv MJ world's most popular alarm! justable Keywound. never gave up his fight; here is the inspiring story told hy his brother &93 Ad- - bell. crystal. loud-so- ft yV9-Shatterproo- we never expressed it, the newsmen and I were death vigil that day last January. My brother, Dr. Thomas Dooley, lay in New York's Memorial Hospital, cancer attacking his lower spinal area; he was dying, and the world was reading daily reports about his condition. One of Tom's doctors came down the corridor toward us. The newsmen surrounded him, asking information on the young doctor whose Medical missionary work in southeast Asia had captured the country's imagination, and who had founded an organization,MEIDICO, to bring medical care to, the needy in underdeveloped countries. The doctor told the newsmen: "There's always hope." ; But I remembered Tom's own diagnosis of malignant melanoma. Half its victims die within the year, he had once said, and most of the rest die in two years. Sixteen months had passed since cancer had first struck" Tom. The doctor took me aside. "He'll be coming out of sedation soon," he said. "If you want to talk to him, now is the time." Tom and I had a lot to talk about. I was executive director of MEDIC6; the organization, only three years old, had 17 projects in 12 countries, and was expanding. Tom had been one of its creators arid the driving force. In only 33 years of life, he'd come a long way, making friends and enemies, having" successes and setbacks. Now it was ending. When I saw Tom, I got quite a shock. Only months before, rhad been with him in Laos checking some of our hospitals. He hadn't looked much different than he had in college. Now he was nearly 50 pounds lighter, and his face reflected pain. But when he saw me, he gave the old quick grin and started off like always at a full run. "There's a lot to be done," he said, "so let's get going!" On Jan. 20, we were to have a directors' meeting, and Tom had prepared a full agenda for it. I don't know how he did it. When he wasn't under sedation, the pain was excruciating. When I left his hospital room, he repeated: "Let's get going on this stuff." No thanks. No acknowledgement that anything was wrong. Tom had more than his share of critics, and they probably Although a jraTA"WATEBrcCCF "lean, lucgel Shock j ; II tJIO leather like a t j Ifl (?)J Luminous crwn If CllT resistant. Unbreakable Golden (mainspring. - ki fed I an X' .... 1 ft jl l intact. 1 mm 3S y. DCOWSE ELECTOIC Doze a little! DROWSE wakes you gently, then lets you go back to sleep an extra 5 or 10 min- utes (as you choose).. Then wakes you again. C3IV w Xn VtP plus tax LI WORLD'S IMCEST MAKER Of would have criticized him for this brusqueness, but Tom had once said: "Don't expect any nice words or thanks from me for helping people who need it. I'll say thanks once a year that's all the time we have." Brusqueness gave Tom an undeserved reputation for being impetuous, but when I checkedUiisarjeiuIlxworked-ou- t agenda, I realized again that Tom, for all his impatience, always looked ahead. Much of what he outlined that day was ' to reiterate for those who would carry on his work his belief that U.S. medical aid could help acquaint the new nations of the world with the selflessness and gocni willoHheAmer- 7 ican people. a. else always looked ahead, all right, but like anybody Tom had his surprises. I remember that last trip with him to Laos. The war there was, already in full swing, arid we didn't know from hour to hour who was in power communists, neutralists, or democrats. We were flying to a jungle clinic in a small plane anoT landed on an air strip only six miles from the Chinese border. Suddenly, we were sur- -, rounded by armed troops. A Jeep with a machine gun mounted on its hood pulled up to us. "I am commandeering this plane for the army," a Laotian lieutenant told Tom. Tom whipped out a letter of passage from the neutralist will get us through," leader, Prince Souvanna Phouma. "This ' he explain ed Jo me. Instead, flung the letter back at Tom. "Phouma was overthrown last night. We recognize only Gen. Phoumi Nosavan." Tom never faltered. He pulled out another letter, this one from Phoumi. "I figured this might happen, too " he said, maybe a little smugly. But Tom's plan backfired this time. The lieutenant didn't believe a foreigner could be friends with two bitter enemies. He ordered us to the clinic and took over the plane. Tom was crestfallen; he didn't like his plans upset. But he wasn't one to sulk. He learned that- - the commanding the-lieute- nant (Continued on page 12) WATCHES AND CLOCKS Family Weekly, May 14, 1361 . |