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...could afford a honeymoon in a private car. The train arrived, waited. The sun neared setting. The air cooled. At a few minutes before 8 o'clock an ambulance drove up to the rear platform of the private car. Gawpers saw a heavy-set old man on a stretcher whisked out of the ambulance, into the car. A younger man, obviously a doctor, got aboard. The train chuffed off toward Boston...
Lashed to a stretcher and screeching protests, eccentric Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck was removed from Washington's Gallinger Municipal Hospital, taken to a private sanatorium at Towson, Md. for an indefinite stay. Let out in an exercise yard there, he sprinted to a 7½ ft. wire mesh fence, scaled it like a monkey, outran his astonished guards to freedom. Next day, after a Capitol charwoman found him sound asleep in his House office, authorities gave him his freedom on condition that he leave for his Seattle home...
...administration wheelhorse of a type that Presbyterians have docilely accepted in recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives affluently on Philadelphia's Main Line, attends the swankest Presbyterian Church, at Bryn Mawr. Conservative in theology, he has never been involved in church fights, has been pleasantly identified with the Pension Board whose assets were $6,000,000 when he joined it. Since then...
...trapped men away from their food line, Dr. Robertson guessed that they could hold out another ten or twelve hours. Soon he could hear the picks of the miners hacking frantically overhead, passing rock and dirt up to the surface by a human chain. Hospital kits were unpacked, stretcher-bearers stood ready as the tired rescuers, themselves threatened momentarily with collapse of their shaft, sent up word that they were "almost through...
Barrett claimed he mistook the G-man he shot last year for another feudist, shared his last meal with the prison cat. Then attendants lifted his bullet-ridden, paralyzed body, clad in a pair of white pajamas, on a stretcher, carried it into the tented prison yard, toted it up 13 steps to the gallows. There they held him upright, half comatose...