Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Granirer took about seven ounces. The plasma was pooled and about half a pint given to bedridden arthritis victims. After a few weekly transfusions, each recipient gained weight, lost pain and swelling, felt better in every way. By way of proof, Dr. Granirer showed movies of former cripples jumping rope...
After polling U.S. radio & TV editors the tradesheet Radio Daily last week an nounced their favorite shows and perform ers of 1950. In the TV documentary field MARCH OF TIME'S filmed Crusade in Eu rope (ABC-TV) scored a repeat win (first telecast in 1949, Crusade won a Peabody Award). Documentary honors in radio went to NBC's four-part atomic program The Quick and the Dead, starring Bob Hope...
Forbes was lead man on the climb with Henry H. Francis, Jr. '54 second, and John S. Humphreys H. '54, third man on the rope. According to Franels, Forbes was exploring a lodge 15 fact above him when he fell backwards. Francis says that he had taken all precautions. He had tied himself to the rock on which he was standing by wedged-in spikes...
Francis pulled in the slack in the rope as Forbes fell and lot out slack as Forbes hit the end to prevent a sudden jerk. Then Francis lowered him to a clump of bushes below. Humphreys stayed with Forbes during Francis' two hour scramble back to got help...
...calling up another 1,200,000 within the next nine months. Director of Selective Service Lewis Hershey urged that the term of service be increased from 21 months to 30, that World War II veterans under 26 be included in the draft, that rules be changed in order to rope in more men claiming exemptions and men previously judged to be unfit. This was not a temporary program, Hershey said, but a program for an "indefinite" period, perhaps for "a generation...