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Died. Bertha Knight Landes, 75, first woman mayor of a major U.S. city (Seattle, 1926-28); in Ann Arbor, Mich. Wife of a professor, mother of two, vigorous Mrs. Landes became "wide-open" Seattle's mayor at 58. She made its trolley lines pay for the first time in ten years, made life miserable for pimps and bookies...
...Wide-Open Wounds. Major Ascroft finds only three valid reasons for treating head-wound cases at the front: 1) severe shock (but "shock is seldom severe in head wounds"), which makes it impossible to move a patient at once; 2) need for immediate surgery to relieve pressure on the brain; 3) no possibility of reaching a base hospital in 72 hours. For such cases he recommends "an operation of expedience"-a cleanup after which the wound is left wide-open, protected only by a plaster-of-paris bandage. A diagram of the wound may be drawn on the bandage...
Formal British political comment and argument goes mostly to the wide-open field of foreign relations. There the British hope above all for permanent cooperation with both the U.S. and the Soviet Union; the Foreign Office's worst nightmare is the prospect of becoming isolated from both nations, or, almost as bad, being forced to make a definite choice between them...
...Sporting "girls of the line" who made Galena Street one of the most notorious wide-open districts in the U.S., ranking with San Francisco's Barbary Coast. Wrote one observer: "I've often seen it on the old line with the girls late in the evening walking up the street, their stockings so weighted down with silver dollars that it was all they could do to navigate." Added another: "There were some sprightly-lookin' lasses down there. . . . But there was plenty of tough-lookin' blisters too. A man could have got hydrophobia from even lookin...
...hands still on the job were short of time if not talent, would have a hard time putting together the kind of precision machine that football fans had been accustomed to watching. Especially to new coaches, who saw a chance to make a quick reputation, the possibilities of a wide-open game, full of long-gain gambles, looked inviting. It might be quite a season for the customers...