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...Over the top window of Manhattan's tallest building hover perpetually two genuine angels, standing guard over a soul imprisoned in a steel girder...
...judge who presided at the trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole span drooped a foot below its usual level...
...doctor saw that the man was almost dead from a complete fracture of the left lower leg and from loss of blood through many lacerations. To get to his patient, 5-ft. 11-in., 200-lb. Dr. Wassermann had to walk along a steel girder, eight inches wide, atop the 16-story shaft. On that dizzying perch he had to amputate the leg, disentangle the man from the cables...
Wassermann, having bandaged the leg stump, handed the man to observers on the roof of the hotel, inched off the narrow girder, took his patient to City Hospital. There a surgeon re-amputated Marion Carey's left stump above the knee so that he may wear an artificial leg with comfort...
...member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, Local No. 40. He and his German wife have two young sons. He likes to talk about steelwork, his sons, his dog. He is boisterous, friendly, stubborn, generous. In Iron Men he shinnies up a vertical girder, using only his hands and his knees. During rehearsals he put in two or three-days' work on Fordham Hospital's new morgue building to keep his hand...