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Fifteen minutes later, when Fenton swung into his final approach, visibility had dropped to one-sixteenth of a mile, a blanket of fog and smoke still hugged the ground. Fenton chose to go around. What was the weather at nearby Seattle-Tacoma Airport? Visibility ten miles, ceiling unlimited. That was the last the tower heard from Fenton. The big plane roared over the field, slashed into a stand of fir trees, and fell, flaming, in an open lot outside the city...
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...
...only reason for a blanket endorsement of Republican candidates for the state legislature would be the CRIMSON's support of the state GOP's platform and its candidate's voting record. We support neither of these Rather we backed Herter primarily because he is the candidate opposing Dever and the Dever machine, and because his personal qualities--not his opinions--make him a suitable alternative to the incumbent...
...great effort has been made to identify Eisenhower with McCarthy. He has appeared on the same platform with him, and endorsed "all Republican-candidates for Congress." While this blanket endorsement is blindly partisan, it is neither strong nor unusual. Ike has specifically denounced McCarthy's methods in terms so direct that no one can honestly doubt his meaning. On the other hand, Stevenson has not renounced any Democratic candidate; he has appeared with Paul Dever...
...first human patient on whom they operated (after tests on animals) died because her heart drew in air. Judith was Hahnemann's second patient. A Minneapolis team operated successfully on a five-year-old girl, chilled in a blanket laced with coils containing frigid alcohol. Last week Dr. Bailey did his third operation, chilling a year-old baby in a blanket...