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Captain Lee Sosman pinned Tuftman Graffeo in the unlimited class. Tufts only victory was gained in the 136-pound class when Rome won the decision from Hoffman. In the 175-pound class Pets Fuller gained a decision over Jumbo Linger. Don Albion defeated Lister for a Crimson tally in the 165-pound class, Walt Parsons won the 155-pound contest, Tyng won the 145's, Ed Rothman the 128's and Schless scored...
...When Lister's ideas of cleanliness came into vogue, style was to keep everything wet with carbolic. Instrument tables were covered in towels wet with the acid, sponges were kept in it, the room was sprayed with carbolic acid until foggy. In those days catgut came in a five-foot coil to be soaked and sterilized by the doctors and "horsehair was obtained by going out to the ambulance stable and pulling out a handful from the tail of one of the horses...
...would be insisting that this is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party: Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Illinois and Michigan, Senator Albert B. Chandler in Illinois, Senator Claude Pepper in California, Senator Robert F. Wagner in Rhode Island, Senator Lister Hill in New Jersey...
...whole U.S. urban population with masks, as has been done in Britain, "until the present frontiers change." And the whole foul problem hung in delicate balance: the civilian frontier might not change for the duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces publicly recognize 16 chemical warfare agents. None is new. There are seven poison...
Soon after the President's blast, Ambassador Winant appeared in Vice President Wallace's office. Besides the Vice President, four Senators were there: Texas' portly Tom Connally, Alabama's tall, drawling Lister Hill, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Georgia's Senator George. The Ambassador is a levelheaded man, and his carefully expressed views about Britain's chances of surviving were not so extreme in either direction as some head lines proclaimed. For two hours he answered questions, talked about what he had heard and what he believed. He said...