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...severed by a bullet and his leg and foot were cold and white. We slipped in a glass tube. . . . The blood started to flow and the foot got warm and pink." Thus, in the antiseptic gloom of a casualty clearing station in Belgium, 30-year-old Major William Thornton Mustard last week described a new surgical trick which he hopes will borrow time for many a war-mangled limb, many a life...
This battle-born first-aid treatment (which Major Mustard says has been previously demonstrated on animals, but never before on human beings): a glass tube is fitted into the pulsing ends of a severed artery, bridging the gap so that the wounded member may live until the patient is strong enough to stand an operation. Intravenous injections of heparin prevent dangerous clotting in the tube...
...spectators were almost as arresting as the mannequins. One Parisienne wore black lace bobby socks with matching lace earrings. Others in towering electric blue or mustard yellow hats racked shiny bicycles in the marble lobby of Maggy Rouff's salon. Past a dead elevator (no electricity) they clattered on two-inch wooden soles up four flights of blue-carpeted stairs, sat down and glorified the gilt chairs in the long showroom. A sprinkling of WACs, a handful of beady-eyed U.S. officers lined the wall. Appraising eyes watched pretty, pert mannequins strut, simper, pirouette...
...night of Dday, off the coast of France, busily engaged landing craft saw a vessel resembling a Hoboken ferry puffing by, read the letters LCK (Landing Craft, Kitchen) on its sides. Blinkers promptly opened up, signaling for "Double malted and ham-on-rye, forget the mustard...
...Farmer Jimmy Wood drove his plow through 200 acres of mustard, spinach, turnips and cabbage...