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...vote took on a prime importance in 1940. U. S. citizens last week registered in record-breaking numbers. Of the 131,409,881 people in the U. S., statisticians estimated that some 45% would be qualified to vote on Nov. 5. From 15 to 20% of these (the bedridden, the nonplussed, the indifferent) probably will not show up at the polls; but indications last week were that the total vote would exceed 1936's record-breaking 45,647,117 by about...
...Bedridden men also must register. If they are at home, they may send some friend to the registration place, to be sworn in as a temporary registrar who will return to the sick man's home with a form, take the filled-in form back to the registration officer. If the invalid cannot get someone to act for him he must register within five days after he gets up. Hospital superintendents, doctors, nurses will be delegated to register their patients. Portable invalids (e.g., in wheel chairs) can take their choice of sending a friend or of wheeling...
...Lancet in January by Dr. Franklin Bicknell of London's Farringdon Dispensary. Last week Neurologist Israel Spanier Wechsler of Mt. Sinai Hospital told a group of noted colleagues that, working independently of Dr. Bicknell, he had cured one man of the supposedly hopeless disease, had got a bedridden woman to walking about her house, had "improved" three other patients...
...concert hall which could house the beloved organ he had played with player rolls. After the $2,900,000 pink marble Joslyn Memorial was opened in 1931, she used to visit it and put player rolls on the organ herself. This winter, too feeble to venture out, she stayed bedridden in Joslyn Castle...
...years. Later he was put in command of a second search party. Despite scurvy, dying dogs, desertions and a ship frozen in the ice pack, he made valuable meteorological, geological, magnetic, tidal, glacial and botanical surveys. At one time he was doctor, nurse and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. He finally got his party, invalids and all, to safety with loss of only one man. Kane died in Havana just after his 37th birthday...