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Rescuers picked their way among crushed, decapitated, legless bodies. When medical help arrived, the water froze in the syringes which held pain-killing drugs. Forty-eight hours later, after the wreckage had been cut through by acetylene torches, after a warehouse at Red Springs was piled high with bodies, the death toll stood at 72, including 52 servicemen, most of them home-bound for Christmas.* The injured: more than...
Lucile Turner was last week on tour in Washington, D.C., "makin' glory" for Lord Halifax at the British Embassy, giving his son, legless Lieut. Richard Wood, the best time he had had since an unexploded Nazi bomb smashed him in Libya. Recent concert dates had taken her to many U.S. Army camps, to Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Brooklyn's Academy of Music, Manhattan's Town Hall...
...world's endurance record was set in 1937 by legless Charles ("Zimmy") Zibelman of New York, who paddled down the Hudson from Albany to Manhattan...
...Paris, Dali found the sight of "a legless blind man sitting in his little cart," tapping the sidewalk "with a boundless self-assurance," so repugnant that he "went up to the blind man and . . . gave him a kick that sent him scooting all the way across the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet...
These techniques of evacuating victims and administering first-aid will be fully demonstrated by the doctor and a group of assistant firemen. Equipment will include a pullmotor, special legless stretchers, and several types of gas-masks...