Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Some one pulled your leg re John Stink, hermit Osage-(TIME, March 29). The atavistic old fellow has not just come down from his tree to claim $200,000. It's quite a story. Probably too long for publication in the Letters Column, but it will be interesting to your staff...
...great swelling follows contusion of arm or leg, tension in the tissues should be relieved quickly by bold incisions into the flesh on opposite sides of the limb. Copious dressings of weak bichloride of mercury solution will then promote healing. Such incisions are rarely necessary for contusions of the trunk or head. "An uncomplicated wound should not cause intense pain...
Fond as Hetty was of Son Ned, she was too stingy to call in a doctor when he was injured in a childhood coasting accident and one leg eventually had to be amputated. Ned was schooled at Fordham College and in real-estate law in Manhattan and Chicago before Hetty sent him to Texas at 24 to see what he could do with himself...
...Universities in quick succession. In his vacations he worked. His easiest job was testing the finished product of a mattress factory. His hardest was in a cement factory, loading trucks. When he left college he joined the Jackson Stock Company whose leading man a week later conveniently broke his leg. Substituting for him, Ameche played a year in stock, took a vaudeville tour with the late Texas Guinan, made good on a Chicago radio hour. He did so well as a radio actor that he got a screen test from Producer Darryl Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood...
Delayed by a sudden storm, the Clipper's, crew spent three days making surveys of Samoa, finally got away for the test leg of the trip, the 1,800-mi. hop to Auckland, New Zealand, where the new line will tie up with a service Imperial Airways is soon to start from Australia across the 1,360 mi. Tasman Sea. This week the Clipper starts back to Honolulu and thence to Manila. Other planes will take up the testing of the new route, which thorough Pan American will probably fly for at least six months before beginning scheduled four...