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...Spingold Theatre itself can produce only admiration--even were it not for the contrast with its predecessor, the makeshift theatre which dissatisfied drama students labelled "The Shell." Spingold is actually a drama center: it includes classrooms, offices for the Theatre Arts faculty, a dance studio, and two small theatres. The main stage theatre itself seats 750 people and has a fully automatic lighting board and excellent acoustics...
Some of the findings might not pertain to the U.S., but Americans are equally ingenious. Men use the clips for makeshift key chains and tie clips. Frustrated executives fire them against the wall with rubber bands. Secretaries use them to keep hairdos in place or hold broken bra straps together. And, bent lengthwise, a paper clip makes a perfect hook for hanging Christmas tree balls...
...American combat surgeons [Nov. 12]. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, Navy Fire Controlman Allen L. Gordon, aboard the battleship South Dakota, was struck by a 20 mm. antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...
...smacked of absurdity. In Central Park, a stroller looked up and for a magic moment imagined that the darkling towers beyond the trees were medieval ramparts. The murky streets looked like a blend of pagan ritual and July-Fourth celebration, as thousands groped about with matches, candles, flashlights, even makeshift torches of burning newspaper...
...volunteers rushed dry ice to hospitals to keep stored blood from spoiling, sent generators to those that needed them, rigged electrical heart-pacer machines to auxiliary power, and hand-pumped iron lungs. A delicate corneal transplant, a five-hour craniotomy, and a caesarean section were performed under light from makeshift sources; five dozen babies were delivered...