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...only way you are going to live." He made a vertical incision in the exact middle of the wounded man's neck stopped the blood as well as he could,' made an up & down cut in the windpipe, which he wedged open with the top of a fountain pen. "Now," he said, "keep that pen in your windpipe and you'll be O.K. You can't breathe through your nose or mouth, but if you keep your windpipe open with the pen, you can breathe through the cut I made...
...minutes the rifleman felt better. He stood up, fingering the tip of the fountain pen. A passing tank carried him to the battalion aid station. There the surgeon stared at the queer arrangement in his neck and sent him on. Next stop was the clearing station, where Captain David Dunn of Westminster, Md. removed the pen top, put in a regular tracheotomy tube (which the air passes through, not around, as in the case of the makeshift wedge...
...homosexual, questioned him cleverly, relentlessly. Their underlings slugged him behind the ear, whipped him, knocked his teeth out. After three days, in a moment of rest, Karski found a safety razor blade in the lavatory. He slashed his wrists, missed the veins, tried again. The blood streamed like a fountain. Then it stopped...
Then there's the tale of Bob Simpson's tipping a South Station fountain girl with two cents on a forty cent check. He told her to "keep the change dearie" only to have her call him back for short-changing her. Was his face flushed! But perhaps not so badly as Jack Traumbauer's, who has been sending his paper collars to the laundry and complaining of the service...
Pastoral. In The Bronx, William Sher man, who identified himself as a nature lover and salesman of physical-culture books, was found guilty of the charge of shaving in a public-park drinking fountain...