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Died. George Creel, 76, America's World War I propaganda chief and jack-of-all-public-affairs; of cancer; in San Francisco. As head of World War I's Committee on Public Information, Wilsonian Democrat Creel set out to arouse the home front ("Give me two weeks . . . and I'll change the so-called mind of the American public on any given subject"). After the Armistice, Author Creel freelanced in California, ran unsuccessfully against Fellow Muckraker Upton Sinclair in 1934 gubernatorial primary, later broke with the New Deal-Fair Deal, last fall headed northern California...
...Carl Creel, 26, a mechanic six weeks out of the Army, was jouncing along a Mississippi highway one day when he hit a hole in the road and his car flipped over on its side. Creel's left arm, part way through the window, was trapped between the car and the paving. He could think of only one thing to do, and he did it. As Creel told his own case history...
...Thus Creel amputated his forearm. Holding the arm against his ribs and squeezing it with his right hand to stanch the bleeding, he walked a mile to the nearest house, where he got a towel for a crude tourniquet. Two hours after the accident, he got to a hospital in Hattiesburg. Professionals tidied up his rough & ready surgery, and Creel was soon resting easily. Then he expressed his chief fear: that the amputation might make it harder for him to support his wife and baby...
...half wild in externals, his face worn by pain and the fierce reactions of laudanum, his hair and straggling beard neglected, he had yet a distinction and aloofness." On the hottest day he wore a huge brown cape and a "disastrous hat"; round his shoulders was slung a fishing creel, in which he placed the books he was given to review. The total effect was that of "some weird pedlar or packman...
...majority of both companies voted to approve Randolph's merger. Last week, as Tri-Continental took over Selected's assets, it became the biggest closed-end trust in the U.S. ($144 million in assets) and fifth among all US trusts.* With that big fish in his creel, Francis Randolph this week was planning some other business-a month of salmon fishing in the Pyrenees...