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Elizabeth Kenny, then 23, did the best she could. Strips of blanket, dipped in boiling water and wrung out, eased the child's pain so that she soon fell asleep. When she woke she cried: "I want them rags that wells my legs." Sister Kenny applied more of "them rags." Soon she applied them to five more stricken children in the neighborhood. A year later she could report to her physician friend, Dr. Aeneas McDonnell, that the children had recovered without paralysis...
...planned to sleep, lie in the sun, ride, play some tennis ("I'm also an ex-tennis player," he quipped), and hunt duck and deer across the border. When four reporters and two photographers showed up for a press conference two days after his arrival, he was asleep. They waited until he appeared, still looking a little drawn and weary, dressed in a five-gallon hat, sport shirt, blue jeans, brown loafers...
...retired to their room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, leaving a call for 6:30 next morning. At 6:30, the switchboard rang and rang, but got no answer. A bellboy knocked, then opened the door with a pass key. Mrs. Murray (who is hard of hearing) was still asleep. Phil Murray lay crumpled on the floor between the twin beds, dead of a heart attack...
...marveling and afraid, and move on without ruffling a hair of his head or touching a stick of his equipment. Apparently, as John Ruskin once concluded, the great animals have a susceptibility to "points of honor." Says Oberjohann flatly: "They never attack a human being while he is asleep...
Depression. In Cumberland, Md., William Lowery, still half asleep, got up on the wrong side of the bed, fell out the second-story window...