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Indomitable Fred Snite Jr., U. S. Invalid No. 1, who traveled in his iron lung from China to the U. S., from the U. S. to France and back, who married and is now an expectant father, was reported taking a short totter each day round his room...
Expected. By Fred Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, who has lived for four years in an iron lung, and Teresa Larkin Snite, 25: a child; in September. Said Snite: "God continues to shower us with all his choicest blessings...
...have taken two tub baths a week, nor entertain men in Engaged Parlor ("a kind of goldfish bowl"), nor go to chapel. They are almost a full year younger (17.8), two inches taller (5 ft. 5 in.), eleven pounds heavier (126), bigger around the waist, have nearly twice the lung capacity of the class of 1885. They may have men visitors in their rooms (afternoons), import Yale men for male parts in their plays, leave the campus weekends, even drink discreetly at Poughkeepsie bars. But Mrs. Allen says she failed to find a single Vassarite who ever went...
...Black Lungs. In the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, anatomists making autopsies discovered that some people had black deposits on their lungs. Since many of the bodies were those of miners, the explanation seemed easy. The black stuff was simply carbon breathed in over a period of years as coal dust. When city folk were found with black lungs, the explanation was that the cause was city smoke. Physicians called it "anthracosis." But modern chemistry shows that the black stuff is not carbon. It is a complex "heterocyclic" compound which does many things that carbon does...
Brody will remain in Stillman for two or three more weeks, while his lung is being expanded, after which none of his much publicized athletic potentialities will be impaired according to Bock...