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...Potter Cotton, No. i man in the Hoover sub-Cabinet, entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treat-ment of a nervous ailment. In January surgeons removed a tumor from his spine. Fortnight later a general toxemia developed. His right eye was cut out. A third operation opened his leg to relieve the infection. He failed to improve. One night last week, Secretary of State Stimson was informed that Mr. Cotton could not live much longer. He sped from Washington to Baltimore, spent a midnight half-hour at the bedside of his good friend. It was their last meeting...
...have given a great deal to have gone back to Liége for the premiére of a one-act opera called Peter the Miner. He had written it himself but he was too sick to travel from Brussels to see it played. Seventy-two, diabetic, one leg amputated, he had to listen to his opera over the radio. One of his ablest violin pupils represented him at the performance: Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth...
Running on boards is different from running out of doors. Learning how to adjust his stride to the greater spring the track gives on indoor boards does npt completely solve the problem of the runner. He must master the banked turns. No matter how long or limber are his legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion...
...dead. One day in a dressing station John saw his father, unconscious, fearfully wounded. Janet, sure Carl was dying, tried to get permission to go to him, but she was rated as "enemy alien," was not allowed. The doctor saved Carl's life, at the cost of a leg, both eyes. Then John...
...Mexico City, a National University freshman objected to sophomore discipline by fleeing from second-year men who were shaving his head. One of the disciplinary crew drew a pistol and calmly shot the freshman in the leg. Today, the news story states, university officials "are considering prohibiting all carrying of pistols by students save by special permit...