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...crowd of 40,000 saw University of Washington, clinching its claim to the Pacific Coast Conference championship, roll up its biggest score in 34 games (40-10-0) against Washington State. First two touchdowns and the last were made by Sophomore Fullback Albert Cruver. One each went to Byron Haines and Jim Cain, spark-plugs of the Washington backfield since the season's start. Another touchdown rewarded one of the year's trickiest plays-a lateral from Nowogroski to Cain, who forwarded to Dick Johnson. Next day, after a secret poll to pick the West Coast representative...
...Byron Haines, Washington's lefthanded, left-footed, drop-kicking halfback wears custom-made football shoes, and in them has become the best open-field runner on the Coast. Jim ("Sugar") Cain, campus representative for Beech Nut chewing gum, has played every position in Lhe backfield this season, functioned effectively in each. Washington has represented the West in the Rose Bowl twice before...
...special specialty of Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Manhattan surgeon who fortnight ago suggested that gasoline filling stations be equipped as first-aid stations for highway accidents (TIME, Nov. 9), is surgery of the brain and spinal cord. To Neurosurgeon Stookey has come many a case of paralysis rendered incurable by ignorant handling of the patient at the scene of the accident. Hoping to prevent such needless damage. Dr. Stookey this week issued new pictures (see cuts) and advice which first-aid manuals, including that of the Boy Scouts, lack...
...show that madness may breed genius, the neurologists, headed by Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston, cited the following admired men, more or less mad children of more or less mad parents: Hans Christian Andersen, Balzac, Beethoven, Bonaparte, Byron, Frederick the Great, Michelangelo, Newton, Poe, Swedenborg, Swift, Tolstoy...
...Surgeon Byron Polk Stookey of Manhattan last week offered operators of the 200,000 gasoline filling stations in the U. S. an advertising slogan: "Buy at a gas station equipped to render first aid." Grisly though the thought is, fact remains that 1,285,000 people were injured in 863,300 motor accidents last year. Chances are that some of the 37,000 injured who die might be saved if gas stations, especially in isolated districts, were equipped to render aid until doctors and ambulances arrive or hospitals can be reached...