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Commander Charles B. Momsen, United States Navy, inventor of the Momsen lung and one of the directors of the successful salvaging of the ill-fated submarine Squalus, will describe the salvaging operations at a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Engineering Society in 110 Pierce Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock...
...Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided to bring Fred home, it was necessary to transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled. Gradually Fred Snite...
...report had it that an old lung ailment had returned and that inactivity had been prescribed for her. Another report (published in Paris by the weekly Aux Ecoutes) had it that the ambitious Edda had recently overreached herself in a quarrel with Crown Prince Umberto and his wife, the Princess Maria José: usually indulgent, Papa Benito, unwilling to have dynastic troubles on his hands, had set his foot down for once-so ran the story-and had commanded his strong-headed daughter temporarily to take up homely pursuits...
...Momsen Lung...
Fred Snite had arrived at Lourdes in a trailer, was greeted by pilgrims crowding around the "iron lung" and clamoring encouragement in many tongues. Thereafter pilgrims, reporters, priests, nuns watched Fred Snite eagerly, day after day, as he attended Masses. Few saw him, however, when twice he was taken from his respirator, wrapped in a towel, placed in a 7-by-3 ft. basin in a bathhouse, to which the healing waters of the grotto are piped. Each time Fred Snite lay in the icy water for half an hour (he can now breathe for an hour without mechanical...