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...strode from the room. Newsmen shook their heads, as they had been shaking them over Wendell Willkie since his campaign's start. The professional gesture would have been to concede his defeat, congratulate his opponent. Political amateur to the last, Willkie went to bed. Far out at Fir Cone, Ore. Charlie McNary was left officially to concede defeat...
...Important medical detective work is the study of clothing and bits of matter that cling to hot bullets. A shot in the liver, for example, goes through coat, vest, trousers, shirt, underclothes and skin ("which is nothing but rawhide"), forming a cone of matter with the bullet at the apex. "The direction, penetration and size of the cone are important in determining the distance and direction of the shot...
...above sea level; Longs Peak rises in its square-topped majesty 5,255 ft. above that; and north and south the peaks of the Rockies repeat like mirrored reflections in the depthless blue air -the Never Summer Range on the Continental Divide, Mount Alice and Flattop, Estes Cone and Specimen, Thunderbolt, Mummy, Sawtooth and Nimbus-some of the more than 10,000-ft. mountains that lie within the Park and give it the peaceful air of being the top of the world...
Last week, at the Manhattan meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Dr. Alfred Jared Cone, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, reported what sounded like an old country nostrum, but wasn't: that simple salt pork packs are "invaluable" in controlling hemorrhage...
...cases of severe nosebleed, whether after operation or from disease, plugs of salt pork in the nose, said Dr. Cone, are far more effective than ordinary gauze packs. "In many instances," he continued, "salt pork promptly stopped bleeding after other methods had failed. ... It seems to have the property of preventing recurrence. ... I have used it in controlling violent hemorrhage occurring with the onset of measles, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever, and during the third stage of labor...