M*A*S*H was both a movie and a television series that captured the attention and hearts of Americans from 1970, when the movie was released, through 1983, when the last television episode was broadcast. M*A*S*H was written by Richard Hooker (Pocket Books, 1968). The movie was directed by Robert Altman and distributed by 20th Century Fox. At the M*A*S*H 4077th home page (www.mash4077.co.uk/), you can read profiles of the characters and actors, learn where the cast members are now, take a tour of the camp, take a trivia challenge, and more. Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals did not go away with the end of the Korean War. At the 807th MASH Operations Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm site, www.iglou.com/law/mash.htm, you can read a diary that runs from December 8, 1990, to June 29, 1991, detailing the experiences of the Army medical corps during a more recent war.

1952 was an election year. The Korean War depicted in M*A*S*H contributed to a close race between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. As a promotional gimmick, CBS used the new UNIVAC computer to predict the election results. Did CBS trust the results of that first computer prediction of election outcomes? Read The IEEE Computer Society Events in the History of Computing at www.computer.org/history/
development/1952.htm to find out.