Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entering the meet primarily for extra competitive experience, the team will be without the services of ailing sophomore hurdler Bob Rittenburg, who injured his leg in the BAA meet last Saturday night, and will be replaced by junior Jack Richards...
...Crimson swimmers will be defending two titles--in the 200-yard relay and the 50-yard freestyle. A victory in the relay would give the Crimson permanent possession of the New England Championship trophy, since the squad already has one leg on it. Huebsch, Hedberg, MacNamara, and Rapperport are entered in the event...
John Kidder is almost completely paralyzed. He can move only his head and neck, and exert pressure with his right leg and foot. So the bottom of the rocking bed has a button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...
...news. Owner Donald A. (for nothing) Leach, a former adman now in the breeding business, had bought him in 1951 for "more than $10,000 and less than $25,000," and trucked him from Texas to North Carolina. But Larry began showing signs of listlessness and lameness in one leg. Leach's veterinarian, Dr. James T. Dixon, diagnosed Larry's ills as rheumatoid arthritis. While Larry lost weight-and his interest in heifers-Leach persuaded a friend at Merck & Co., Inc. to send him thirty-six 500-mg. bottles of cortisone...
...drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only a jumbled blur, the infancy of the Tri-Optic method is most evident...