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Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30 or 40 miles behind the lines, before he is permitted the medical luxuries of thoroughgoing surgical care...
...first bombs bit into Warsaw pavements, Polish doctors had made no plans for the epidemic of war. Air raid casualties were picked up like victims of everyday auto accidents, packed into ambulances, rushed to overcrowded hospitals. Frantic radio appeals were broadcast for blood donors, volunteer ambulance drivers, nurses and stretcher bearers...
With an outboard motorboat as convoy, Auctioneer Giles splashed into the swift-running yellow river one afternoon last week, splashed into print three days later when he drifted into Glendive between solid banks of cheering townsmen. Taken home on a stretcher, bleeding & bruised Hero Giles, eleven pounds lighter than when he started, entertained his neighbors with details of his 77½-hour swim...
Because of Rowe's indifference last year and earlier this season, many felt that Colton Wagner might step into Chace's stretcher after a single year of experience with the Yardlings. Weighing 185 and standing six feet four, the veteran Rowe is the logical choice. His ability to whip the blade through fast and maintain his proportion will make the Varsity tough to beat on racing starts and final Sprints...
...height of this sport, feverishly excited by several bulls-eyes he had scored, Snell broke a blood vessel in his lungs and had to be removed to the hospital on a stretcher. The bells remained...