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...first time, although Paris is now home to him. Léger's bias for machine-tooled design does not come from study, experiment or theory; it was set during the only period in his adult life when he did no painting, while he was a stretcher-bearer in an engineer corps during World War I. "There," he recalls, "in the midst of machines, I felt my taste for the mechanical and dynamic side of modern life grow . . . I said, and I still think, that to see a howitzer shell shining in the sun is worth more than...
Ailing British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 55, still stretcher-born after two April operations, left his London clinic to recuperate at Prime Minister Churchill's country home. Convalescence is expected to last through the summer...
...driving a car now and shopping at the supermarket." Dr. Huggins glows with satisfaction over the successful cases-"I see a man brought in on a stretcher and I write out a prescription, and then see him come in again in a couple of weeks, hale and hearty; or a bedridden woman will get up and go to work. These are great changes...
...Cheesed Off." For every wan and tired U.S. soldier who walked or hobbled or was stretcher-borne along the quick road home last week, there were stories to tell, though few had lived through what...
Medics, doctors, nurses and some among the 140 newsmen watched them with tears in their eyes. The stretcher cases were taken by helicopter to the advance base at Munsan, where a mobile surgical hospital had been erected; the walking patients went by ambulance. The first man to reach Munsan was Pfc. Robert Stell, a Baltimore Negro. General Mark Clark, who was waiting at Munsan to greet the returnees, saluted Stell and made a move to adjust his robe, but a medic beat the general to it. After medical and intelligence processing, the men were offered cigarettes, Cokes, milk shakes, steak...