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TIME researchers also occasionally turn to Miss Ryerson for emergency help in verifying the medical details of news stories. What she doesn't know, she can, of course, find out-sometimes with engaging results. Asked one day what items went into an emergency kit for snake bite, she called a herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo to make sure. The excited zooman refused to tell her a thing until she told him what kind of poisonous reptile had bitten...
Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first aid kit...
Skillful Neglect. A good family doctor, observes Hyman, possesses two potent assets not to be found in a laboratory: sympathy and reassurance. Large doses of these healing agents, he says, should be carried in every doctor's kit. Other Hyman hints...
...sort of modern Kit Carson, the strong silent Gary Cooper plainsman type. He'll always be broke-else why would he take all these queer jobs? He'll have lots of gals-one at every port. Naturally one of the problems will be to keep him single. I want to make him one of those guys that's sloppy as hell in his flying clothes, then can get dressed up in the evening and look like...
Other stockmen waged similar battles. Railroads moved all available stock cars into sidings at Hugo, Limon, Boyero, Wild Horse, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells and Arapahoe. Few ranchers were lucky enough to get more than a small percentage of their cattle out of the drifts, and many distant herds had not eaten for a week after the storm. As a desperate expedient, the Keystone Ranch near Karval had Army bombers try dropping baled hay to some of its cattle. After that seven Army C-47s began hay-bombing on a larger scale. As the cold weather continued, airlines passengers reported seeing...