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Hustled to a base hospital at Santa Eulalia and then to Saragossa beside his wounded friends, it was found that Correspondent Neil, who nearly died of a chest hemorrhage in Ethiopia was suffering from 34 shrapnel wounds. A Catholic priest gave his blood for a transfusion during the night and none other than El Caudillo Franco took time off from the greatest battle of his life to telephone about his condition. But gangrene had set in. Not realizing the seriousness of his wounds, worrying about his typewriter and still hoping for a glass of beer on the morrow, Eddie Neil...
...terrible first degree burns. When she was discharged she had no skin left on her torso, arms and neck. Scars held the flesh of her arms to the flesh of her sides. She could not turn her head because the lower part of her chin had grown to her chest...
George L. Stout, head of the Department of Technical Research at the Fogg Art Museum, and John S. Thatcher, Assistant Director of the same museum announced yesterday that the cross on Bishop Lawrence's chest in his portrait in Leverett dining hall is caused by variations in the moisture content of the paint and the support...
Faced with the loss of his remaining holdings, the Negus again appealed for public subscriptions. In London, the Abyssinia Association is collecting an "Emperor's Fund." Months ago he issued a call for a $10,000,000 "war chest," first purpose of which apparently was to provide for himself. When his request went unheeded, he wailed: "My appeal to the world for my distressed country has failed to bring in a response sufficient even for my personal needs...
...Wynn, the Perfect Fool, isn't so dumb. "Do you want my definition of a hero?" he asked. "Well, a war hero is a man who gets a piece of gold on his chest for a piece of lead in his pants," he chertled...