The M*A*S*H books
frank terranova
Has anyone read those M*A*S*H books like M*A*S*H goes to Paris or
Russia? I'm curious to know what the characters do in these books since
we're so familiar with them either in the tents or in the OR of Korea.
Mikael Uhlin
I've got most of those novels, with the exception of "M*A*S*H Goes To
Montreal" and "M*A*S*H Goes To Moscow". Three of the novels are written
solely by Richard Hooker ("M*A*S*H", "M*A*S*H Goes To Maine" and
"M*A*S*H-mania" and these are different both in style and contents than the
remaining novels, which are written by Hooker and William E. Butterworth. I
suspect that Hooker-Butterworth is a double pen-name for someone else.
Remember that those novels are written independently from the TV-series,
often with contradictionary information and of course they don't feature any
characters written for the series, namely BJ, Winchester, Potter and
Klinger.
* Hawkeye
is married to Mary and got three children: Billy, Stephen and Karen. When he
got back from Korea he worked for a while in East Orange, New Jersey, but
then returned to Maine, where he started to work at Spruce Harbor General
Hospital. Together with his old friends from Korea, he also opened
Finestkind Clinic and Fishmarket.
* Trapper
was sent to Okinawa after the truce and then worked at Saint Lombard's in
New York.
He finally joined the others in Spruce Harbor and soon fell in love with
Hawkeye's
secretary Lucinda and later married her.
* Margaret
After retiring from the Army Margaret was briefly married to, and widowed
by, Mr. Isadore Wachauf, Chairman of the Board of Wachauf Metal Recycling,
International
(formerly Izzy's Junkyard). Margaret then went to San Marcos in Brazil as a
chief nurse of a mission hospital, the Green Inferno Christian Medical
Missionary Hospital. She went to New Orleans in connection with mission
business and met the Reverend Buck
Wilson, founder of the God-Is-Love-In-All-Forms Christian Church Inc. After
a whirlwind
courtship Margaret married Reverend Wilson. He expired on the nuptial couch
on their wedding day, apparently of a heart seizure brought on by
overexertion. Margaret Houlihan Wachauf Wilson is now acting as Mother
Emeritus of the God-Is-Love-In-All-Forms Christian Church Inc.
*Francis Burns, M.D.,
lives in Hillandale, Ohio, with his wife Louise and kids. He left the
practice of pediatric medicine and founded the Burns Vasectomological
Institute and also runs The Burns Loving Family and Zero Population Growth
Clinic. He is social secretary (with ambition to become president) of the
American Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society. About his time in Korea,
he calls himself "combat surgeon" and claims to have been both chief surgeon
of the 4077th MASH and personal medical adviser to General
Douglas MacArthur.
* Mulcahy
His Eminence John Patrick Mulcahy has become titular Archbishop of Swengchan
(China). Due to a misunderstanding between his superiors and the Democratic
People's Republic of China, he has not been able to actually preside over
his archdiocese. In "M*A*S*H Goes To New Orleans" Hawkeye removed a tumor
during an operation upon His Eminence
* Radar
is called J.Robespierre O'Reilly in the "M*A*S*H Goes To..."-novels and has
started an
international fast-food service operation (Mother O'Reilly's Irish Stew
Parlors).
In "M*A*S*H Goes To Las Vegas", Radar marries Kristina Korsky-Rimsakov,
telephatic sister of opera singer Boris Korsky-Rimsakov, who appears in
several of the novels. The knot is firmly tied by Archbishop Mulcahy.
* Blake
"M*A*S*H Goes To San Fransisco" says that "despite irresponsible reports to
the contrary from people who would have known better had they been able to
read words of
more than one syllable, (Henry Blake) survived the Korean War and achieved
high rank". He's now Major General Henry Blake, Medical Corps, U.S. Army,
commanding general of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
* Ho-Jon
The Korean houseboy they sent to Androscoggin College is now the Director of
Admissions at Androscoggin. In the novel "M*A*S*H Mania" he helped Hawkeye's
37-year-old brother-in-law Claremont "Meanstreak" Morse to enter the college
and after successful studies he became the Chief of Neurological Surgery in
Spruce Harbor.
* Duke & Spearchucker
left Georgia and Philadelphia respectivally to join Hawkeye and Trapper in
Maine.
* Painless Pole
Walter Kosciusko Waldowski, Doctor of Dental Surgery, is now "bald and fat"
and lives in Hamtramck, Michigan. He's married to Wilma and has one
daughter, Wanda.
David Long
"Mikael Uhlin" <u-l...@telia.com> wrote:
> frank terranova wrote:
> >Has anyone read those M*A*S*H books like M*A*S*H goes to Paris or
> >Russia? I'm curious to know what the characters do in these books
since
> >we're so familiar with them either in the tents or in the OR of
Korea.
>
> I've got most of those novels, with the exception of "M*A*S*H Goes To
> Montreal" and "M*A*S*H Goes To Moscow". Three of the novels are
written
> solely by Richard Hooker ("M*A*S*H", "M*A*S*H Goes To Maine" and
> "M*A*S*H-mania" and these are different both in style and contents
than the
> remaining novels, which are written by Hooker and William E.
Butterworth. I
> suspect that Hooker-Butterworth is a double pen-name for someone else.
> Remember that those novels are written independently from the TV-
series,
> often with contradictionary information and of course they don't
feature any
> characters written for the series, namely BJ, Winchester, Potter and
> Klinger.
>
<<snip>>
Actually, they were two authors. Richard Hooker is a pen name for
Richard Hornberger; however,William E. Butterworth really is William E.
Butterworth III (who has gone by different pen names including W.E.B.
Griffin). While I have each of the novels, I've only read about 4 of
them so far. I enjoyed each of them, with the original "M*A*S*H" being
my favorite so far.
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PAUL GADZIKOWSKI
Maine" and "MASH Mania", are like "MASH" episodic; tales of Hawkeye's
friends and relations in Maine as his surgical career progresses through
the 50's ("MASH Goes To Maine") and 60s and 70s ("MASH Mania"). "MASH Goes
To Maine" is largely concerned with how he gathers the other Swampmen -
Duke, Trapper John and Spearchucker - to Crapabble Cove to go into
surgical practice with him. General Henry Blake appears in the last
chapter of "MASH Mania" (Hooker does not seem to have taken kindly to the
killing off of Henry on the tv series).
The novels also with Butterworth's byline are far different in structure
and mood (enough that I sometimes wonder whether Hooker actually had a
hand in them, though a friend argues convincingly that the OR scene at the
end of "MASH Goes To New Orleans" is "pure Hooker"). Rather than episodic
set pieces about Hornberger's beloved rural Maine, they're unabashed
farces peppered with broad characters (almost all of whom seem to be
ex-staff or ex-patients of the 4077th), political satire (they're set in
their contemporary 70s), exotic locales (as you can tell from the titles)
and plane chases. They center on Hawkeye, Trapper John, Hot Lips (who has
become the Reverend Mother Emeritus of the God Is Love In All Forms
Christian Church, Inc.), Father Mulcahy (who has become an archbishop and
the Pope's drinking buddy) and a small circle of their own regular
characters, with occasional appearances by Radar (now the CEO of his own
fast-food chain), Henry (now a general and CO of Walter Reed), the
Painless Pole (now a dumpy old dentist with a wife and daughter), and even
Frank Burns (still the same old Frank).
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