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...Waupun's hospital when Inmate Thomas Votcas upset his night bucket attendants decided to "housebreak" him. One bound and sat on him while another seized his ears, bumped and rubbed his face in the muck. When his face was bleeding and thoroughly besmirched they tossed him on a cot and went away...
...played without an intermission against an "essentialist"' setting devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change. A few essential props-a bed, the back flap of a tent, a hospital cot-indicate scenes where necessary. That the most genuinely heroic human activities do not always make the most stirring dramas is a fact which does not greatly injure the effect of Yellow Jack, which remains an honest interesting chronicle about men who did not think of themselves as heroes. John Miltern...
...Turin, Italy, Smerildo Gonnella lay on a wooden cot. wrapped in a tattered shroud, ready for death. Twelve years he has thus been waiting. Predicted Smerildo Gonnella, who has been fed by kindly neighbors, "Any time...
...joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager, cashier, janitor and night watchman of a bank at Malone, Tex. (pop. 150) where he slept on a cot in the corridor. At 47 he was president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried from a crude Kentucky boyhood to fame & fortune in Chicago was a sinewy...
...manager. But it was in the automobile business that Chrysler first proved his ability as an executive as well as an operating man. In 1912 Charles W. Nash, who had succeeded Durant as head of General Motors, put him in charge of Buick. For two years Chrysler kept a cot in the factory. Buick's production jumped from 40 to over 500 cars a day. When Durant made his comeback into General Motors, Chrysler became vice president in charge of GM operations. But Durant and Chrysler quarreled. In 1920 Willys- Overland which had just gone on the post...