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Oregon. In his 18 bedridden years, George Nelson's main diversion had been the trains going by his house in Canby on the main Portland-San Francisco run of the Southern Pacific railroad. In the daytime he would wave from his window to trainmen; at night he blinked his bedroom light and the engines whistled back. Last week George Nelson, 32, and his mother boarded the Southern Pacific's Cascade as guests of the trainmen, who had passed the hat, raised enough money to pay for a week's sightseeing in San Francisco-by ambulance...
...Doherty's expansion had been wiser than Wall Street realized. He had sunk his borrowed millions into valuable operating properties, had foreseen the tremendous future of natural gas and invested heavily in it. And perhaps the wisest thing done by Doherty, who was bedridden for almost a decade before his death in 1939, was to put in "Pete" Jones to boss the company, and raise it from what seemed to be its ashes...
Playing without the services of bedridden wing three-quarters Al Green, who scored both tries in last week's 9 to 0 victory over the Westmount English Rugby Club of Montreal, the ruggers will have another tough afternoon. M.I.T. lost to Princeton last week, 6 to 3, and the Tigers defeated Harvard, 13 to 0, on the vacation trip...
...family fortunes declined, the Godfreys moved from Manhattan to the commuters' village of Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. By the time he was twelve, Arthur had a paper route and was helping out at a bakery after school. During the 1918 flu epidemic, when his employers were bedridden, he ran the bakery virtually single-handed for three weeks. The resulting absence from high school caused him to be dropped as captain and anchor man on the sophomore debating team on the eve of the big contest with the freshmen. Stung by this example of adult unreasonableness and injustice, Arthur quit school...
Died. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh, 49, author of the bestselling novel Gone With the Wind; of injuries suffered when she was run down by an automobile; in Atlanta. A onetime reporter for the Atlanta Journal (1922-26), diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.) Margaret Mitchell, bedridden and later on crutches after an accident in 1926, was prompted by husband John Marsh to write a novel instead of straining her eyes reading them. She wrote on & off for nearly ten years, reluctantly surrendered her incomplete manuscript to the Macmillan Co. in 1935. The monumental (1,037 pages) Civil War romance...