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What was expected to be a triumphal march in the I.C.A.A.A.A. Meet in Philadelphia today and tomorrow may turn out to be little more than a funeral procession if Milt Green's leg injury turns out to be as bad as it is feared. He will be all set for the broad jump but whether or not he will be able to attempt the barriers is another question that will be decided only at the last minute...
...James Tate Mason, made last week's meeting the most emotional in the A. M. A.'s 89 years' existence. Dr. Mason, 54, lay critically ill in his Seattle hospital as result of a thrombosis. The thrombosis had compelled amputation of Dr. Mason's left leg (TIME, May 11) and last week threatened amputation of the other. No one knew better than Surgeon Mason how dire the consequences might be. Bravely he sent a "last message" to the medical assembly over which he could not preside. "I have an abiding and unlimited faith in your integrity...
Last week Hero Parker joined a distinguished company of Medal of Honor men which included: Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union leader, who had a leg amputated on the Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill...
Because 12-year-old Cinemactor FrecU die Bartholomew earns some $1,250 a week in Hollywood, the Canadian Government announced it would withdraw his $180 annual pension, given him as a dependent of Father Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew, who lost a leg...
...meat, spends his spare time weaving blankets, fashioning bracelets and necklaces. Considered the Beau Brummell of the wrestling world, he sports huge sombreros, checked suits, fancy vests, embroidered boots. If his specialty, the Navajo war whoop, fails to prostrate his opponent, he employs the Indian Death Lock, a crushing leg hold...