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...Carmon Molino at 123 has registered pins in three of his matches, winning by decision in the fourth. He will face the varsity's Dave Skeels. At 130, Paul Striker will face Cornell's George Willis, while at 137, the varsity's Bob Crook will face Charlie Gratto. Joey Noble will face Cornell's Glen Wise at 147, while Dick Vincent, undefeated for the Big Red, will face Jack Eastling...
...taught that a woman is ready to give birth when the cervix has dilated to ten centimeters, and should be moved to the delivery room when dilation has reached nine centimeters. Some shiny new interns at Lying-in, depending on this rule-of-thumb, have had arguments with Nurse Carmon over the proper time to move a mother. In every case that Lying-in can remember, Carmon was right. Said one chastened doctor: "If my patient had dilated to only two centimeters and Carmon said she ought to go to delivery, I'd take her there...
...Mabel Carmon grew up in Streator, Ill., took her training at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, soon became the "righthand gal" of Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who headed Lying-in from its opening in 1895 to his death in 1942. She first went to work for him in 1907, when Lying-in was running a three-bedroom, gaslit hospital in Chicago's stockyards district, and when nearly all U.S. infants were born at home...
Retiring Author. Dr. DeLee had published (in 1904) a textbook called Obstetrics for Nurses. As successive editions appeared, Nurse Carmon contributed more & more of her own experience, and in the eleventh printing, DeLee formally listed her as coauthor. Now in its 15th printing, Obstetrics for Nurses is the most widely used text of its kind in the U.S., has been translated into Chinese (on microfilm) and Spanish, has sold nearly 300,000 copies...
Last week, on the verge of retirement, Miss Carmon was reluctantly talking about herself to reporters and photographers when she heard a commotion in the hall. It was an expectant mother arriving and in a hurry. Nurse Carmon walked out on the press and went to work...