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...themselves . . . We all started loading tons of these shoes. We filled up 30 or 40 big cartons with shoes. We were filling the squad car up and the trunk with shoes, all different sizes, for all their relatives and themselves. They're all wearing these shoes-it says Crawford Shoes on them. Everybody got four or five pair in their home. The rest of them were all given away to everybody else. There was $13,000 or $14,000 worth of shoes that we took this particular night. We took every one left in the place...
...plus a yearly subscription of $60. Current membership includes Sir Winston Churchill, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, and the ninth Earl of Portsmouth; U.S. Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson, Everett M. Dirksen and John McCormack, and a clutch of film notables ranging from Clark Gable and John Wayne to Joan Crawford and Walt Disney. There are also a lot of nameless people with money who, as Gable put it, "are so far down the list they seem to have got in just to do the cleaning." Possibly Profitable. Gambler Ryan, who also owns the Salton Sea Yacht Club and the Bermuda...
...another year. President will be Samuel H. Young '61, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia; Ibis, John L. Berendt '61, of Lowell House and Syracuse, N.Y.; Narthex, J. Jeremy Johnston '61, of Lowell House and South Hadley; Treasurer, John A. Herbert '60, of Lowell House and Quincy; Secretary, George Crawford, Jr. '60, of Dunster House and Salters...
...McDowell explained the risks. Jane Crawford and her farmer husband Thomas were willing. So she set out on horseback, the tumor resting on the saddle pommel, from Greensburg to Danville, Ky. The 60-mile journey lasted "a few days"-Dr. McDowell does not record just how many. Then, according to his own report in the Eclectic Repertory and Analytical Review...
Virginia-born, Scottish-educated Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830), practicing in the tiny (pop. 1,000) frontier town, had dared what the most eminent surgeons in the capitals of Europe would not have attempted. Patient Crawford, who had been given only opium pills and remained conscious, reciting psalms, during the operation, outlived her surgeon by ten years-until the dawn of the anesthetic era. McDowell's colleagues at first scoffed at what they dismissed as a backwoodsman's tall tale. Not until 1827 did the University of Maryland recognize him. with an honorary degree...