Dr. Thomas A. Dooley In 1956, LOOK magazine named Thomas A. Dooley as one of the year's most outstanding men. Just under thirty years of age at the time, Dr. Dooley had distinguish himself for caring a half- million sick and emaciated Vietnamese refugees. When fighting broke up in the divided country of Viet Nam, the northern forces surged southward, scattering thousands of refugees before them. At the time, Dr. Dooly was a lieutenant, assigned to a tranquil naval hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. Forthwith, Dr. Dooley volunteered for the duty on a navy ship that had been chosen to transport refugees to a sanctuary in Seigon. The curtain was beginning to ascend on Dooley's real career. Sour grape--Marcia said that she didn't want to be on the Principal's Honre Roll anay way, but we knew that it was just sour grapes on her part. (to disparage something which you cannot have)