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...handle" ends are attached to a wire which runs through a pulley at the head of the bed. Weights varying from five to 30 lb., according to the amount of tension needed, are attached to the end of the wire or rope, thus pulling the head upward and backward, keeping the vertebrae slightly apart. Patients can move freely in bed, can eat and sleep in normal positions. Installation of the tongs is not at all painful, for the skull is almost completely insensitive...
...Years Under the Earth* published last week in the U. S. Norbert Casteret declares with a refreshing lack of modesty: "Underground exploration requires unexpected talents-from prehistory, mineralogy, natural history, physics and chemistry to rope acrobatics, crawling, canoeing, swimming and even skating. . . . No one can venture underground without agility and physical stamina, and these qualifications I possessed as a champion runner, jumper and swimmer...
...shots at bosses, and made things generally hot for law-abiding mine folks. "Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman's rope, all the soberer citizens of Pennsylvania's mining towns sighed with relief. But Pennsylvania's miners still sing about them...
...their native porters and a battery of ubiquitous cameras. In the course of their journey the Denis party discovered a race of giants, the Watusi, who look like Egyptian sculptures and dance like jitterbugs, and surprised a Pygmy tribe in the act of building a skyscraper bridge out of rope vines. They also went on an elephant hunt without failing to photograph the finish, and escaped from a forest fire which was obviously genuine. These and similar exploits would by themselves be enough to make Dark Rapture, except for its title, a model for pictures of its type. In addition...
Since three gendarmes still remained besieged, the Nazis dragged the wife of one through the streets by a rope binding her wrists, ordered her to beg her hus band to come out, which she did. Few minutes later a bus load of gendarmes drove up, one was instantly killed in the bus by a Nazi's shot, another was killed as he dismounted. The Nazis scattered as the gendarmes opened fire and after ward the commander of the relieving force said, "The gendarme's wife who was tied up with this rope was lying on the ground...