Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoot If You Must. In Kingman, Ariz., when gun-waving Convict Charles Turner burst into an Episcopal parsonage one jump ahead of a sheriff's posse, 82-year-old Miss Louise Freeland ordered him to drop the gun, took him by the arm and marched him outside to the waiting officers, explained: "I didn't want to see him shot. He probably would have bloodied up my favorite chair...
...aviation executive, had to better all his past speeds to catch Bibbia. Calmly he watched a procession of other competitors fly into trouble at Shuttlecock. One shot over the lip of the turn and disappeared in the trailside snow. "He's waving to show that at least one arm is not broken," was the announcer's casual comment. Then Connor slammed onto his skeleton...
...large, subscription TV is still a troublesome issue held at arm's length by the Federal Communications Commission. FCC has dawdled over pleas by such big companies as Zenith and International Telemeter for the use of public TV channels to broadcast scrambled signals that only the set of a paying customer could unscramble. Toll TV is bitterly opposed by those it threatens most-TV networks and movie exhibitors...
...eight hours. The heart-lung machine, previously used mainly in heart surgery to provide the surgeon with a dry field, takes blood from the leg vein of a patient, infuses oxygen, filters out bubbles in a pad of steel wool and returns the blood under pressure into an arm artery. By thus handling the circulation of about one-third of the body's blood supply, the machine sometimes relieves an ailing heart muscle of enough of its load to keep it going. In the first two cardiac cases so treated at Kings County, one got "dramatic relief," a second...
Patrick Kingsgrant is a junior at Harvard, class of '51, and a freshman at life. His right arm was slightly crippled at birth, so Pat goes out for the football team and damages his right knee. This test of manhood merely inflames his ego; he enrolls in a creative-writing course. A story about his "true friends" and eccentrically named roommates, David Tall Man and Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily...