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THE IMMEDIATE, IMPERATIVE OBJECTIVE 83.—Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, The Surgeon General, U.S. Army, outlining, to a press conference, plans for a new medical center.

retirement as Director of the Institute, but continued in a civilian capacity for the National Research Council as the Scientific Director of the American Registry of Pathology.

The new Director of the Institute was Col. (soon to be Brigadier General) Raymond Osborne Dart, who in addition to having served as Curator of the Museum in the mid-1930's, had been Assistant Director of the Institute-Museum during the last months of Colonel Ash's administration.

In addition to a new Director of the Institute, there was a new Surgeon General, when Maj. Gen. Raymond Whitcomb Bliss was appointed in mid-1947 to succeed General Kirk who had reached the statutory age for retirement.

The new Surgeon General shared the interest of his predecessor in the development of the Forest Glen medical center. In a statement for the press, re-