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Orson Welles threw up a tent and some tintype booths on a Los Angeles lot and started a brave one-man revival of prestidigitatorial entertainment, but not at tent-show prices. Service men got in free; the rest paid $11 a seat opening night, a $5.50 top thereafter. For that they got two bewitching hours of the versatile Wonder Boy, dazzlingly costumed, reading minds, hypnotizing his curvilinear assistant, Starlet Mary Rowland, whipping rabbits out of hats and bowls full of rice out of nowhere, sawing ladies in halves, levitating stooges, and triumphantly producing Rita Hayworth from a trunk...
Waiting last week on the African mainland to put the sick and wounded from Sicily to bed was the Charlotte, N.C., Evacuation Hospital, an all-tent, mobile affair, with over 1,000 cots and a big staff of doctors, nurses and enlisted men. Correspondent Ernie Pyle has told how this evac took in patients twelve hours after the U.S. landing near Algiers last November...
Blood and Running Water. Compared with those dynamic days, the tent hospital on its broad hill with gravel driveways now has a settled look. Italian prisoners have installed running water and some of the other comforts of home. The pharmacy hands out prescriptions and runs a blood bank (plasma is not enough for some cases with great blood loss, and the Evac stores whole blood bled from its own personnel). The shock tents give transfusions, prepare men for operations; the operating tent can handle 16 cases an hour around the clock. The dentistry tent with three chairs...
...both Allied and Axis) are picked up by the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Sicily, get first aid, are then flown over the water in an air ambulance to a field near the Evac. A ground ambulance picks them up and deposits them at the hospital's receiving tent. There a casualty is treated much like a patient entering a ward at home. His field medical record is begun with entries describing his wound and how he got it-these entries are copied from the tag attached to his coverall. The record, stamped with...
...Charlotte Evac is a desperately efficient place these days, but its person nel still finds time for a little fun. Right now on the ground outside the surgical tent are two neat patches outlined in white pebbles and decorated with a heart-&-arrows design that says: "Lieut. Ferry man, Miss Guyett, Ward...