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...Paso, Tex. Out of the house and down the steps a few minutes later hobbled a feeble old man. He wore pajamas and a green smoking jacket. A white hat rested on his stringy white hair. Friends lifted him gently into the car. He lay down on the stretcher. In beside him got a pretty 17-year-old girl. A motorcycle policeman escorted the ambulance as it drove off in the dusk. Later a somberly dressed woman came out of the house. She was crying. She got into another automobile, went trailing after the ambulance...
...From St. John, N. B. to Armonk, N.Y. flew Clarence Duncan Chamberlin. Strapped to a stretcher in the cabin was his friend and pupil Ruth Nichols whose back was injured in the crash that ended her attempt of a transatlantic flight (TIME, June 29). Prior to fetching Miss Nichols, Flyer Chamberlin had taken his Crescent monoplane to Floyd Bennett Airport, New York City, hung out a sign coaxing joy-hoppers to "fly with a pilot who flew the Atlantic," promising an autograph on every ticket. Immediately Roosevelt Flying Corp. hired Roger Q. Williams, just released from "alimony" jail, made...
...unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much for him. White-jacketed attendants carried him from the train on a stretcher...
...only player who had a 'chance of doing any open field running in the rain and mud at New Haven last week. As soon as he got in the game he intercepted a pass, but Army tacklers roughed him so thoroughly that he left immediately on a stretcher. The rest of the game was a dull pushing contest between two good lines, with the Army line better but not good enough to do the trick. Yale 7, Army...
Private Funk, pacifist at heart in the heart of a nation under arms, elects to be a stretcher-bearer and as such is sent to the Western Front. But he is physically unable to do the work, is transferred to the dressing station behind the lines. Here he makes himself indispensable, soon is more useful than the surgeon. A writer in peacetime, he knows nothing of medicine, learns gradually how little can be done to help the wounded, even before the medical supplies begin to give out. before they have to use paper bandages, the same dressings over and over...