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After five months of careful work, Burgoyne and Washington are back in their frames, and Cornwallis is almost finished. Tightening the picture on a stretcher last week, the countess gave it a light tap with her finger. Cornwallis uttered a soft boom. "You see," she said proudly,"like a drum...
...shaft was sunk, and into it was built an Otis elevator big enough to hold stretcher and wheelchair cases. This cost $50,000. Airlocks were installed in the mine to seal in "curative" gases. To keep the procession of health-seekers in order, there is a flossy reception room where each visitor gets a number assigning him to a seat in the 85-ft. lateral. Downtown, a cashier handles the payoff: $100 for each visitor, which entitles him to four one-hour sessions underground...
When a town was low on schoolteachers, Mrs. Henrichsen pitched in as a substitute. She not only comforted the dying, but once gave the undertaker a hand when a coffin had to be upended through a narrow doorway and a body hoisted through a window on a stretcher. She has driven a patient to the hospital, been mired in back-country roads, listened while unmarried mothers sobbed out their problems on her shoulder, and heard a girl say, "I'm glad we have a woman pastor-I couldn't have done that if you had been...
...What Made Him Do It?" Outside, a siren wailed and faded. Two cops brought in a 15-year-old Negro on a stretcher. "A kid with the big ideas shot out of him," volunteered one of the cops. "Tried to hold up a grocery, so the groceryman goes for his .38 and lets the kid have it." Almost as an afterthought he added, "The gun the kid had was empty to begin with...
...Catatonic Schiz?" In Female Admitting, a handsome Negro girl was brought in on a stretcher. Her eyes were wide open, but she lay motionless. "She went out cold like this all of a sudden, while we were sitting in a nightclub," said her husband. "For no reason, just all of a sudden...