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Four months later, when the case came up, Ed McNew was wheeled into court on a stretcher. Swallowing copious drafts of a colored liquid out of a medicine bottle, he wept, swore that the sight of Jones's camera had caused him to suffer a "mental explosion," won an acquittal. Outraged, the Knoxville Journal reprinted Photographer Jones's damning picture, with the scornful legend scrawled across it: "Not guilty...
...announced that the next Lux bill would be "Sidewalks of New York," his offhand reading of the script's Sidewalks of London. He rarely misses a performance. Once when he was ill he had himself conveyed to the theatre in an ambulance, did his bit from a stretcher with a hospital intern and nurse looking...
They clambered gingerly to her, strapped her to a stretcher. They secured the stretcher with a long rope which they snubbed to ice axes rammed into the snow. All afternoon six men carried the stretcher while three others paid out the rope, foot by foot, then found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe...
...sweater when he idles about his house. After Brown's auto accident last year, U. C. L. A. students held a special mass meeting to pray for his recovery. He responded by showing up a few weeks later to watch a football game from a stretcher...
...letters a foot high the street placards of London newsmen shrieked: "WHERE IS UNITY?" This would have made a good headline for the bombshell resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, instead referred to the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford. Last week her return to Britain on a stretcher roused such public excitement that the War Office sent soldiers with rifles to keep unauthorized persons off the landing quay at Folkestone. Up in rock-ribbed Scotland the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Patrick Joseph Dollan, snorted: "It is simply disgusting that this attention should be paid to a little flapper...