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...couple of loony candid cameramen. There are such howls as Costello's emergence from a garbage can during a bank stickup. Says he: "What's a bank got to be stuck up about?" Then there is the uproarious moment when the sheet falls off the stretcher, revealing that Costello is really walking down the street holding before him a pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea...
...Each of the city's 85 casualty hospitals has an emergency medical unit divided into teams, each consisting of a doctor, a nurse, two nurses' aides and two stretcher-bearers. Several hospitals have as many as 32 teams...
...addition, a reserve group of 1,000 physicians, 3,600 graduate nurses, 1,200 nurses' aides and 2,200 stretcher-bearers trained by the Red Cross will report to the hospitals if disaster strikes...
...minutes later enemy rifle fire crippled one of the sergeants in both legs. His companions had to leave him. That evening Robarge returned with a stretcher and guard party. While crossing the same valley they again saw the white dog stalking them. When a sergeant raised, his rifle the dog reacted like a well-trained man, dropped to his stomach and rolled out of sight into a gully. Robarge's party reached the spot where the wounded sergeant had been hidden and found him gone. Apparently the dog had led the Germans...
...years old went about on bicycles, wearing their metal helmets like veterans, during the air attacks and during the shelling. The time I went up to the Military Hospital to see the wounded Americans who had been brought in the first day, the older Scouts were serving as stretcher-bearers. They were big husky boys. I have never seen any nicer looking boys-not even in Denmark and, as thee knows, that is a lot for me to say. As I returned from the hospital, troops were digging machine-gun nests, and I heard that machine guns were being placed...