Word: lungfuls
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...paralyzed, but he told the nurse who held them what he wanted to play. He saw the cards only by reflection in the mirror over his face. For 18 years and seven months, since he was stricken with polio, Fred Snite had been bound to an iron lung...
Bridgeplayer Snite, 44, did not show up for the tournament's second day. In the West Palm Beach hotel room where he had been taking a nap in the iron lung, he was found dead. The respirator was working, but after so many years of pumping against it, Fred Snite's heart had failed in his sleep. Thus ended perhaps the most famed fight an American has ever made to stay alive and to enjoy life against terrible odds...
Plugged Out & In. For years, the smiling face reflected in the iron lung's mirror was familiar to millions in newspapers and newsreels. His father spent an estimated $1,000,000 on the medical fight to keep him breathing. Fred graduated from Notre Dame in 1932, went to work in his wealthy father's business, the Local Loan Co. of Chicago. Four years later, in China on a trip around the world, he contracted bulbar poliomyelitis...
...bubble in Bender's right lung has kept him hospitalized since Saturday. Doctors at first believed the wound a serious one, but they now hope to release Bender this weekend...
...depends on whether the lung takes care of itself. The wound hasn't hurt me since Sunday, but it keeps my lung from expanding when I breathe," explained Bender, who holds a National Scholarship...