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...didn't believe me; but when we arrived on Sugar Hill and I opened his cab door he gave me a buck and his card. On it was engraved: Professor Paul J. Sachs, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University...
...Lowell power plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...
...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...
...Huntington, W. Va., Wharf master George McClaskey's wharfboat was jammed in drift ice so dangerous that rivermen refused to work on it to free the boat. A drunkard reeled and staggered safely across it, knocked on McClaskey's cabin to ask him to call a cab. McClaskey rowed him back to shore...
Aldrich, reserved, immaculate chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, put on a pair of overalls at Minden, La., climbed into the cab of a locomotive on Mr. Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. Mrs. Aldrich boarded a coach and the train chuffed off to Hope, Ark. There Utilitarian Couch had a hillbilly band at the station to meet them. The Aldriches climbed out, danced a square dance on the platform before Host Couch whisked them off to his island lodge...