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Lilli Palmer also blazed a new trail by wearing an evening dress that modestly covered her neck, shoulders and bosom. This was a precedent-shattering break from the tradition established by such rivals as Faye Emerson (known as "the girl who put the V in TV") and blonde Actress Eva Gabor who, last week, unquestionably won the neckline sweepstakes by assembling on her show her entire décolleté family (pretty sisters Magda and Sari, mother Jolie) in a memorable display of dazzling shoulders and Hungarian accents...
Fire of undetermined origin swept Emerson Hall B last night causing extensive damage to a wall, furniture, books, rug, and an oil painting. Fire officials said that the painting was "valuable" and damage to it was "serious." Cause was due to a frayed elec-lamp cord. --from the CRIMSON, January...
...breathing. The Schaefer prone pressure method, which first-aiders know best, does the trick by forcing the air out of the lungs in rhythmic thrusts and relying on the body's elasticity to suck it back in again. A later method, developed in 1948 by Inventor John H. Emerson, operates on an opposite principle. Emerson's idea is to lift the patient's hips off the ground at regular intervals, thus lowering his diaphragm and making him breathe in. Exhalation follows naturally when the hips are lowered...
...Chicago Physiologist A. C. Ivy and partly financed by the Red Cross, which measured the amount of air forced into and out of the lungs of nine volunteers and 109 newly dead bodies by nine methods of artificial respiration. The conclusion: a combination of Schaefer's push and Emerson's pull is best. "Those who now are indoctrinated with the Schaefer prone pressure method," wrote Dr. Ivy's associates, "can double the ventilating efficiency ... by lifting the hips 4 inches 12 times each minute, alternating with the push on the lower part of the chest...
...medley relay--won by Harvard: Steinhart, Emerson, Pratt. Time...