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...into real estate, was found murdered in his Bakersfield home. The crime is still unsolved.) Young Earl Warren started his working life as a call boy, waking up railroadmen on time. Then he was a newsboy and cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. He played the clarinet in the Kern County High School band, later joining the Musicians' Union. At the University of Cali fornia, Warren was a steady but not bril liant student. He flunked second-year Greek; he failed to make the baseball team as a pitcher because he was too wild. After law school, he practiced...
...Captain Maximillian Christian Kern and the other Navy doctors who report the case in the Naval Medical Bulletin: "Burn patients die not of their burns, but of shock, toxemia or sepsis." The burned sailor suffered all three, one after the other. Blood and plasma transfusions, salt solution by vein, sedatives and a sound pair of kidneys pulled him through...
...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...
...chant by the Russian sacred composer Tchesnikoff. By sharp contrast, the Glee Club will continue with "Schnelder's Band" by A. J. Mundy, closing with a group of two operetta favorites, "Stout Hearted Men" from Sigmund Romberg's "New Moon," and "Old Man River," Jerome Kern's classic from "Show Boat...
...President James Knox Polk, 1818; Bandmaster James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, '28; Author Thomas Wolfe, '20 (the University is the "Old Catawba" of his Look Homeward Angel); Statesman Josephus Daniels, '85; Journalist Jonathan Worth Daniels...