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...Wenger woke up in a hospital with a fractured right leg. His wife was critically hurt: severe multiple brain hemorrhages which caused complete paralysis of her limbs and facial muscles. She could not talk, eat or even smile. And she was pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth of a Baby | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...Army wife, Rhoda Wenger had learned to live like a gypsy: for four years she had followed her husband, Corporal Leland Wenger, from one camp to another. Last winter, to give her a change of scene, he decided to take her to New York for a whirl. En route, their car crashed into a truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth of a Baby | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...Chicago street an elderly man upped to a perfect stranger and said: "Pardon me, may I test your blood?" The indignant citizen calmed down when he discovered who his questioner was: Dr. Oliver Clarence Wenger, top-flight syphilologist in the U.S. Public Health Service. This was the latest wrinkle in a much-wrinkled campaign against venereal disease which City and State health departments have been waging for four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bundesen's Blitz | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...residential Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Price on Picketing | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Said Postal Inspector M. G. Wenger: "Evidently the plane - we think it must have been traveling about 207 m.p.h. - thundered head on into the steep-slanting, knife-edge ridge only 20 ft. from its top. Part of the undercarriage and nose, with much of the mail, ripped off upon the ridge, and the rest of the plane, with the seven bodies, plunged off the cliff, striking once about 400 ft. down and then ricocheting off and tumbling some 600 ft. more into the uptilted snow field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Confetti on Lone Peak | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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