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...motives, she tried to "save" the girl from Heflin when she was really trying to save him for herself. She also gradually became convinced that she had murdered Massey's wife. Even more frightening hallucinations followed. After a fierce burst of melodrama, Joan winds up on the hospital cot. The cautious prognosis: she is a schizophrene, but conceivably curable...
...doctor brusquely asked who had moved Tojo from his chair to a cot, causing blood to gush from his wounds. Several newsmen owned up, a little proudly, to their contribution to the war effort. Nice going, said the doctor. "If that blood hadn't drained out, it would have filled his lungs and drowned him." Instead of killing Tojo, the correspondents had saved him for the war-crime trial which was in its second year last week...
Instead, she weakened day by day. She was sleeping more & more of the time, calling less frequently for "Harry," taking less & less nourishment. She did not seem to know that her feather bed had been replaced by a power-driven hospital cot, which tilted gently back & forth to ease her tired muscles...
...While "cot-fishing crews" (four men with two flat-bottomed boats known as currachs or cots) rescued householders from upper-story windows, watchers on the hills knelt in the downpour and recited the Rosary. Confessionals and prayer-stools floated out of church doors. On the Galtee slopes above Tipperary, sheep, terrified by the mountain torrents, fled to the valley, leaving their lambs to perish. It had never happened before...
What of External Affairs Minister Louis S. St. Laurent, 65? Maybe, said Coté-"if he were ten years younger or if he wanted the job." And what of Justice Minister (and ex-Finance Minister) James L. Ilsley, 53? Coté's answer: "His goose is cooked. ... He was the wartime taxer...