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...around. With the newly developed muscles, the paraplegic can hold himself erect and move his upper trunk, arms and shoulders. Guttmann found that the best way to keep the muscles strong was to launch a sports program. He invented the Stoke Mandeville swimming stroke: the patient sits upright in the water, paralyzed feet floating in front of him, and rows himself backward with his arms...
...Roxbury (Mass.) Latin School in 1895. On winter mornings he sent his four children off to school with fresh-baked potatoes clenched in their hands to ward off frostbite. Summer afternoons Tobey invited his neighbors over for an outdoor hymn-sing, which he always led, pounding the old upright piano and rolling out the words in a stentorian baritone. In 1910 in Boston, after hearing Charles Evans Hughes denounce political corruption, Tobey was so impressed that he followed Hughes's carriage around the city in a daze. Then & there he decided to leave the chickens and go after...
...record five craft went the whole way; no boatman was badly hurt. Elapsed-time records showed that the winner was Erich Seidel, who, after starting last, had skimmed upright down the wild Arkansas in a record 3 hr. 4 min. 32 sec. While cheers echoed off the Rockies, Winner Seidel stood by unresponsively, fighting a case of stomach cramps. His companion. Theo Rock, who wound up second, sang a swan song. "For a man of my age, this race is enough," vowed he. "There is nothing in Europe to compare with...
...Instead of withdrawing into the shelter of her coach like most notables in the long procession from Westminster Abbey, Queen Salote sat in the drenching downpour, a massive (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.), broad-faced woman in red robes and a headdress from which two feathers stuck stiffly upright; she beamed, waved, mopped rain from her face with a handkerchief, beamed again. The soaked, footsore crowd who had waited interminable hours to see the procession instantly warmed to Queen" Salote...
Homage. The Queen sat motionless, her twin scepters held upright, her brown tresses peeping out from the rim of the lustrous Crown. From the choir rose the anthem, Be Strong and of Good Courage, and Elizabeth II, escorted by her nobles, moved to the high throne...