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...descendant of Inventor Robert Fulton, he comes from one of New England's oldest and wealthiest families. From fashionable Groton he went to Harvard where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He contracted tuberculosis in his last year (1910), had to be shipped to New Mexico on a stretcher. There he began a study of local archaeology which was to make him better acquainted with the State than most of its natives. His lungs mended rapidly. In 1912 he bought the capital's only newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and promptly tacked on a Spanish edition...
...Grand Canyon, Ariz., when a fractured leg trapped H. W. Moulton in a canyon bottom, rescuers hoisted his stretcher high above their heads, toiled along a river bed for 36 hours, sometimes up to their necks in water, lugged him to safety...
...Indignant Edith Searle, Mrs. Dick's English secretary, told newshawks: "What a hungry mob of vultures you are! What dirty dogs! What torturers and persecutors!" Still suffering from a broken arm incurred two months ago in Bermuda, Mrs. Dick was carried from the ship on a stretcher, to a hospital in an ambulance. A Cleveland reader who asked Author Gertrude Stein to explain her motto, "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," printed on her best-selling Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (TIME, Sept. n), received the following reply from Alice B. Toklas (Miss Stein...
...Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their feet sore. Innsbruck's Franz Hofer was carried to the reviewing stand on a stretcher and fireworks were set off with such complete disregard of the consequences that 50 people were rushed to hospitals, hundreds fainted...
...carrying members of youth organizations, official and semiofficial. Sweating in khaki sun-helmets and heavy khaki coats, they went into action shouting at traffic, patrolling the street to see that Sato had his pails of water outside, shouting instructions to "Keep calm." Fifteen thousand soldiers helped out these volunteers. Stretcher bearers wearing gas masks picked out grinning civilians, bandaged them and lugged them to "emergency hospitals" in schools and public halls. At this play-acting Sato's sentimental little wife was seen to weep. Tokyo's fire engines clanged out to put out imaginary fires in buildings designated...