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...beside his cot. One minute his heavy rasping breath could be heard throughout the tent. The next he was quiet and the sheet was pulled over his head. I saw a big marine who might have been a wrestler, judging by his huge neck and bulging biceps. His barrel chest heaved mightily as he fought to breathe and live. Said Pharmacist's Mate Billy O'Neal: "One of his main arteries was hit. The internal hemorrhage is so great, he seems to be drowning in his own fluids." Half an hour later the big fellow was dead...
While waiting for Dr. Silvis to finish, I walked back to the recovery tent. One man wore a plaster cast which covered him from toes to chest. His right arm had been amputated about six inches below the shoulder. He was the only amputation case in the ward, but one of the doctors said that there had been a lot in the past few days - several where two limbs had been lost, two cases where three limbs had been cut off. One of the latter had died after being evacuated...
...Hope Chest. In Dallas, Tex., a childless housewife in her middle twenties grew alarmed by the diaper shortage, laid in a supply, just in case...
...Canal Zone, improved it at Mercersburg Academy. When he entered Yale three years ago, he was ready for squatty Bob Kiphuth's swimming course for advanced students. A fanatic on physical condition, Coach Kiphuth put Ford through the usual ten weeks of exercises to build belly, back and chest muscles, other exercises to strengthen arm depressors, hip-joint flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity of breathing. If he did not have to turn his head...
...long, metal-bound walnut chest named for the chest which once reposed in Westminster Abbey's Chapel of the Pyx, now rests in England's Mint, where newly minted British coins are deposited for Britain's annual coinage-testing: the Trial...