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...sanatoria and hospitals of Tucson, Ariz, last week. St. Mary's Hospital was calling: "Have you an extra oxygen tent? We have a 12-year-old boy here who's failing. . . . Operation for mastoid.'' Not one extra tent was there in all the dozen institutions. Patten Levings, son of the city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, would have to die for lack of oxygen-rich...
...Tucson watched the triangular action. In St. Mary's Hospital Patten Levings was unconscious. In Desert Sanatorium wan Alice Hilliard was expectant. That first day wind and rain forced Pilot Reiss down at Bellefonte, Pa., and McKeesport, Pa. He stayed over night at Columbus, Ohio. The second day winds up to 100 m. p. h. forced him to hedgehop past Indianapolis and Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. When he landed there near midnight he learned that he was no longer a savior, only a freight deliverer. Patten Levings had died. Miss Hilliard was in no great need of oxygen...
...Bradley Merrill Patten, embryologist of Western Reserve University, showed a film, taken with a special microscopic lens, of the heart of an unhatched chicken. Twenty-nine hours after incubation, five days before the formation of any nerve tissue, the heart began to beat. The beat began in the portion of the heart which later became the right ventricle, not in the "pacemaker" portion, where begin the normal beats of a fully developed heart. The pictures showed that before the formation of any chambers the heart is a straight tube with no indentations. Later it twists upon itself, becomes U-shaped...
...William Patten, Dartmouth zoology...
...potboiler the Merriwell series soon got out of hand. At the age of three months its weekly circulation was 75,000. Merriwell was to become what the author hoped-the hero of practically every youngster in the U. S, At the peak of his career Author Patten believes, a half-million schoolboys read him every week (many out of sight of parental eyes). Every week for 18 years Author Patten (under the name of "Burt L. Standish" so that others might carry on after him, or in case of illness) ground out 20,000 words. At first he was paid...