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Students and facultymen did see something wrong. For weeks they grumbled about it, and one instructor named Hoyt Bowen went so far as to denounce Moseley in chapel. Last week after Bowen was fired for "insubordination," the revolt broke out in earnest. At separate mass meetings, majorities of the faculty and student body rallied behind Bowen', passed resolutions of advice to the college administration about the Moseley-Armstrong money: give it back...
Drinker and Shaw constructed a crude mansized model, only to store it away in an old warehouse. Then, on Friday, the 13th of September in 1929, a man named Barrett Hoyt was dying of polio in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Since his breathing muscles were paralyzed, the doctor in charge decided to chance Drinker's respirator. The lung had only been tried once before, and then, the patient had died of pneumonia...
...Hoyt was barely breathing when the bulky equipment reached the hospital. They put him in the machine, started the motor, and in a few minutes, Hoyt was breathing regularly. Today he is alive and well...
...first of many thousands of lives to be saved by Drinker's machine. Hoyt lay in the lung for four weeks, during which Drinker had many anxious moments as to whether the respirator would hold...
...capabilities, not of intentions. But those who were concerned with the Larger Picture were horrified at the possible suggestion that the U.S. might drop atom bombs on China. For his tough hangar talk, O'Donnell was duly slapped down by the Air Force's boss, General Hoyt Vandenberg, then went back to his proud job-command of the Fifteenth Air Force (long-range bombers) at March Air Force Base, Calif...