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...Hotspur." As a crusade-loving Attorney General who usually tired of his crusades in a week or two, Roy McKittrick has been savagely caricatured by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's brilliant Cartoonist Dan Fitzpatrick as a fireman charging off to a dozen infernos at one time. Editorially, the Post-Dispatch habitually referred to him as "Hotspur" -until it decided to support him in this campaign. Roy McKittrick has always referred to himself as "just a country...
Beckham was still eight short of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's U.S. record of 26, far under the R.A.F.'s brilliant Spit-fireman, Group Captain Adolph "Sailor" Malan, who destroyed 32 Nazi planes, most of them during the 1940 Battle of Britain. Top R.A.F. pilot still in combat is Squadron Leader Colin Grey, with
Somewhere on the seven seas a 19-year-old Navy fireman was inside a minesweeper's boiler, chipping off scale, when somebody turned on the steam. Three times the boy plunged at the "curtain of steam and boiling water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered...
Captain Kern and his helpers, who have handled 360 burn cases aboard a hospital ship, do not believe in tannic acid for burns-it forms a loose, crusty scab under which infection often develops. All they used on the young fireman was sulfathiazole ointment and rather tight bandages. The tightness slowed the oozing of blood serum into injured tissues, thus reducing shock. A month after he was burned, the sailor's wounds were healthy and pinch grafts were laid on his deepest burns. The patient, almost unscarred, is now back on duty...
Numbed Senses. Nobody had a rational explanation for the catastrophe. Nobody seemed to know why warning torpedoes had not been placed on the northbound track. The railroad explained that the West Coast Champion's fireman had gone down the track to set a fusee, had stumbled and destroyed his only one. Passengers then lit newspapers...