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...seemed a little unsteady on his feet, but Taximan John Forney thought nothing of that. At night in Manhattan lots of people are unsteady on their feet. The man hailed Forney near Ninety-Sixth Street and climbed into his cab. He asked hoarsely to be taken to Bellevue. Forney changed his mind, then. Bellevue, the grim collection of buildings where innumerable sordid little dramas of the city have ended, is perhaps the most famed municipal hospital in the U. S. Many drunks are taken there, but they seldom go voluntarily. Forney decided there was something else wrong with his fare...
...Hacker Forney started south, stopped at a red light. The man said, "For God's sake, I'm dying. Don't stop for the lights. Get me to the hospital...
...helping lawyers and investigators from Washington learn something last week about the dignity and ignorance of Kentucky's rural poor. The lesson was equally onerous for young Mr. McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded over 250 talesmen before they could agree upon a jury...
Minnesota. Director Sidney J. Williams of the Council's public safety division estimated that if all States had rigid license laws 3,000 lives would have been saved last year. The Council's chief statistician, Reuben L. Forney, showed that 50,274 persons will die in 1950 if fatalities increase as much in the next 14 years as in the past 14. Hopefully, Florence I. Anderson, curly-haired, emphatic secretary of the East Bay Safety Council (Oakland, Calif.), declared that California's compulsory driving schools for traffic law violators were proving to be successful accident reducers...
...course it's my point." snapped hapless Forney Johnston...