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Thus, echoing scores of editorials across the country, wrote New York Post Pundit Max Lerner last month when a gallant band of rescuers worked around the clock to pull seven-year-old Benny Hooper Jr. out of a well shaft at Manorville, L.I. (TIME, May 27). One of that gallant band was the Eastport volunteer fire department's physician. Dr. Joseph H. Kris. Called in by police, he stood by for almost 24 hours, supervising the piping of oxygen to the trapped...
OUTSIDE the trim, grey ranch house in sleepy Manorville, N.Y., seven-year-old Benny Hooper and a playmate whooped and darted through the yard in the supercharged hour before bedtime. Turning his back on the children, Benjamin Kent Hooper, 32, was on his way to the house to get a pipe for the irrigation well he had been hand-digging for the vegetable patch. He heard a scurry, then a shriek: "Benny fell in the hole...
...Kent Hooper grabbed a flashlight and raced to the wellshaft. At the bottom, 21 feet down, his son was wedged feet first in a clammy cavity less than ten inches wide. Benny's red wool jacket had been jerked over his head by the fall; one hand was stretched pitifully upward. "Daddy," he whimpered...
Truck Driver Hooper lowered a rope, but Benny was not strong enough to hold on with one hand. Hooper hurried indoors to call police and the Manorville Fire Department. At the nearby Riverhead telephone exchange, the switchboard buzzed with a sudden burst of emergency calls. For 20 minutes Operator Borghild ("Betty") Hooper was kept busy handling them before it dawned on her that rescue workers were being directed to her home...
Died. Ben W. Hooper, 86, onetime (1911-15) Republican governor of Tennessee, who was credited with averting a nationwide railroad strike in 1921 after getting together with railwaymen; of pneumonia ; in Newport, Tenn...