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...wedding of James Potter Polk, son of onetime (1918-19) Acting Secretary of State Frank Lyon Polk, and Margaret Smith Salvage in swank Lattingtown, L. I. went J. Pierpont Morgan. When he went into the church, he clapped his topper over his face to foil a battery of nine cameramen. When he left the church he threatened the cameramen with his umbrella. On each occasion he was thoroughly photographed. Muttered the 69-year-old financier, getting into his Rolls-Royce: "They won't leave me alone. And those flashlights scare me to death...
Laid principally in Kentucky, Author Gordon's story alternates between plantation scenes and eyewitness accounts of the shifting Western battleground. The domestic pictures are much the more successful. The war episodes, in which real but rarely actualized figures like Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters...
...special specialty of Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Manhattan surgeon who fortnight ago suggested that gasoline filling stations be equipped as first-aid stations for highway accidents (TIME, Nov. 9), is surgery of the brain and spinal cord. To Neurosurgeon Stookey has come many a case of paralysis rendered incurable by ignorant handling of the patient at the scene of the accident. Hoping to prevent such needless damage. Dr. Stookey this week issued new pictures (see cuts) and advice which first-aid manuals, including that of the Boy Scouts, lack...
Surgeon Byron Polk Stookey of Manhattan last week offered operators of the 200,000 gasoline filling stations in the U. S. an advertising slogan: "Buy at a gas station equipped to render first aid." Grisly though the thought is, fact remains that 1,285,000 people were injured in 863,300 motor accidents last year. Chances are that some of the 37,000 injured who die might be saved if gas stations, especially in isolated districts, were equipped to render aid until doctors and ambulances arrive or hospitals can be reached...
...ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. Her paternal grandmother's family, she believes, sold the Federal Government the Hudson River bluff on which the U. S. Military Academy stands at West Point, N. Y. Her great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...