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When a drowning seaman is brought out of the sea, he is immediately bound (either supine or prone) on a stretcher by gentle wrist and ankle bandages. The stretcher is placed upon a fulcrum, such as a sawhorse, if handy; if not, in a simple loop of rope secured overhead. Rocking is started, head and feet alternately down about 50 degrees, a complete seesaw every four or five seconds. British Surgeon Lieut. G. H. Gibbens suggests in the British Medical Journal: "It helps some people if they hum a tango or a slow tune, moving the stretcher at the beginning...
...been among the world's proudest trade associations. Its members are the great midwestern merchants (Marshall Field, Carson Pirie Scott, The Fair, etc.) that line the upper part of Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward, once an important Al Capone domain...
...Wilmott Ragsdale, about whom I last told you when he was looping the loop with our desert glider students at Twentynine Palms and swooping down Mt. Rainier with the ski troopers, is now with the U.S. Army in Britain...
Their elevated, emanating from the famed "Loop" around Chicago's business center, was built for a city of 1,700,000 (present pop. 3,400,000), is now in receivership. Its last big purchase of new equipment was made just before the U.S. entered World War I. Their streetcars, owned by four different companies (all in receivership) and operated by a fifth, are oldfashioned, high-riding trolleys ("antediluvian arks"), 75% of which were built before Harding campaigned on his front porch. And they are so crowded that many Chicagoans cannot even reach a strap to hang...
...Chicago's Loop, in "Dead End Kids" movie style, hands up, faces scowling, three hoodlums-"Crabs" Kravish, 17, "Amateur" Schenold, 19, and "Ray" Weglowski, 17-surrendered to the coppers. That day, with two companions who made a getaway, they had stolen three cars, stuck up a priest, kidnapped and released a 17-year-old Chicago heiress, Helen Priebe, and her 18-year-old escorts...