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Engaged. Carolin Babcock, 26, ranking U. S. tennis star; to Richard Salisbury Stark, of Santa Monica, Calif.; in Los Angeles. Tennist Babcock has been on five U. S. Wightman Cup teams, was runner-up in the 1932 U. -S. Women's Championship...
...favor of a weak British team's chances against a strong U. S. team was that none of this year's British players was married and they would therefore, presumably, have no worries about absent husbands. True, two of the U. S. tennists- Alice Marble and Carolin Babcock-had sore backs and Helen Jacobs, in the year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers was not feeling in top form either...
David F. Aberle; Alfred R. Babcock; Sherman N. Baker; Joseph N. Ball, Jr.; Nathan F. Banfield, 3d.; James B. Banghart; James M. Barnett, Jr.; Christoph F. W. Berliner; Edwin A. Blackwell; Henry W. Blood; Richard J. Both; Thornton F. Bradshaw; John W. Brainerd; Robert A. Brooks; Milton P. Brown; James R. Butler; Richard S. Carroll; Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.; Peter J. Chenery...
Wounds & Complications. Wound should be thoroughly, but gently, cleaned was Dr. Babcock's primary injunction Wounds of the scalp, face or neck should be freely flushed with antiseptics (half-strength tincture of iodine is good), grease removed with turpentine or ether, dirt-begrimed tissue cut away, bleeding stopped. Bandages may be applied for 24 hours to limit oozes. After that "no dressing is necessary. . . . Dressings about the openings of the mouth, eyes and nose are particularly objectionable, as they retain decomposing secretions in contact with the wound." Infection or disfigurement, declared Dr. Babcock, "from an incised or even...
...Babcock forbids the use of formalin, carbolic acid or lysol in dressing wounds because they retard healing. He recommends weak wet dressings of bichloride of mercury or iodine, bromine (for fetid wounds), and aluminum acetate (for raw skin...