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...next was incredible. With a minute to play, Ohio State received the kickoff. Beltz fumbled and Notre Dame recovered. Halfback Pilney dropped back to pass, thought better of it, ran to Ohio State's 18-yd. line, where he was knocked unconscious, carried off the field on a stretcher. There were less than 30 seconds left. Will Shakespeare passed to Millner for a touchdown. Notre Dame 18, Ohio State...
Fernand Léger served three years as a stretcher bearer in the War, figured out in his own mind the sort of painting he wanted to do. Humanity appalled him. For more than 20 years he has been at work making confused, elaborate patterns of gears, wheels, lamps, streaks and segments of color, at about $2.50 a square inch. Tycoons and esthetes have paid that price, for all Leger abstractions have a technical slickness comforting to men of affairs, all make excellent decorations...
Into a Los Angeles municipal courtroom was wheeled a stretcher bearing Busby Berkeley, No. 1 Hollywood creator of bizarre cinemusicomedy dance effects. Eyes tightly closed, Dance Director Berkeley winced as a clerk read a grisly account of an automobile accident three weeks ago in which two people were killed, five seriously injured, Berkeley himself badly cut & bruised. Witnesses testified that Motorist Berkeley whizzed down Roosevelt Highway one night, cut out of line, crashed headlong into one car, sideswiped another. Some said they smelled liquor on his breath. "In my estimation a crime greater than manslaughter has been committed," said...
...Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
...square-eyed young woman with flowing hair lay on her side on a rolling operating-room stretcher. Down her abdomen ran the bright scarlet streak of a surgical incision, freshly stitched. Above her stood a dapper young doctor in white preparing to give her a hypodermic. In the background another doctor was holding a new baby upside down. Thus last week did Nina Tablada present her idea of a Caesarean section at the 19th annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists on the beaverboard partitions of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace...