Hand Breathing

At Roanoke, Va. men worked the arms of Walter Boothe, 18-year-old farm boy, up and down, up and down, during every second of more than two weeks. His lungs had collapsed, and they were hand-pumping air into him. The case was similar to that of Albert Frick of Evanston, Ill. (TIME, March 21). But whereas Albert Frick lived thus artificially for 108 hours, Walter Boothe was kept alive 378 hours, until his death last week.