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...read through a fine collection of 25 cent pocket books, found in another corner of the room; they had titles like "Fifi' or "The Impatient Virgin." And every day brought the 6:30 thermometer. It grew increasingly tough. Smith pattered around the ward, suggesting that tottering arrivals be "placed immediately in bed." He frequently curled up in his covers and moaned "morphine, morphine,' in a pained-wracked voice. He waggled his fingers at feverish flu-victims and solemnly pronounced "Leprosy." He played cards until he found he knew all the cards from the back. He read patients each others fever...
James A. Stillman, late National City Banker, heir to millions, and co-star of one of the gamiest divorce suits of the '20s, turned out to have died deep in debt. Stillman and wife "Fifi" charged each other with offside parenthood-she by an Indian guide, he by a chorus girl. She got the divorce, promptly married Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick. A New York estate tax appraisal last week: Stillman owned $875,745, owed $1,079,539. Notable debt: $362,848 to the four Stillman children for their support...
...Union, N.J., Fifi, a two-year-old alley cat, went under ether on the operating table of Veterinarian John J. Petersen, while her three-year-old mistress, Norma Mitchell, paced the floor like an expectant father...
...Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration...
Last week, the sutures withdrawn from her abdomen, Fifi's recovery was pronounced complete...