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Doctors and midwives have long known that women nearing the end of pregnancy hate to lie flat on their backs-many complain that it makes them feel weak-but nobody knew why. There is good reason for the phenomenon, Dr. William F. Mengert of Southwestern Medical College reported last week. The heavy-laden uterus can press too hard on the big vessel (vena cava) carrying blood back to the heart, and thus cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure, or shock. Dr. Mengert hopes that his discovery will save such patients from needless operations, because the real remedy...
...last week Jack Westland found himself in the finals again, after 21 years. In the seven earlier rounds, such former champions as Billy Maxwell (1951), Sam Urzetta (1950) and Charles Coe (1949) had all gone down. Jack's opponent was Spokane's young (23) Al Mengert, who had diligently been reducing his score ever since he got out of the U.S. Air Force last June...
After going one up over Mengert on the cold, clear morning 18-hole round, Jack, who had chain-smoked all the way, seemed to feel his age. He got his stiff muscles rubbed down in the locker room. At 2 o'clock, before a gallery now grown to some 8,000, Jack and Al teed off again. Some openly doubted that the older man could weather the afternoon round. Al Mengert, though wet-browed under the strain, went one up over Westland on the ninth hole to lead for the first time...
Westland just went on playing a painstaking, precise game that brought, not applause, but "Gee, gee, gee" from the gallery. Soon he was two up. Then on the 16th hole (468 yds.), Jack sent his second shot into the light rough just off the green; Mengert's sailed into a sand trap. Westland arched his approach to within a scant yard of the cup. Mengert exploded out, then overputted the hole. Jack sank his short one. That...
...Sohier, Jr.; Cadet 1st Lieut., S. Trowbridge; Cadet 2nd Lieut., P. D. Putnam, Cadet Sergeants, J. T. Addison, E. S. Clark, R. E. Jackson, J. M. Frary, D. G. White, L. Richardson; Cadet Corporals, B. Williams, W. F. Pond, J. R. Coombs, H. C. Lamond, C. J. Mengert, C. M. Hollander, F. Pooler...
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