AN INVALID'S LIFE
For a man foi'ced to.live in a mechanical breathing apparatus, Fred Snite, twenty-eight-year-old - infantile paralysis patient, gets around and does things—from giving country club cocktail parties.to attending the horse and dog races and the theatre. "He can go anywhere his trailer can," said Fred B. Snite, his father. That includes a "drive-in" theatre where the patrons park on terraces and see the movies from their cars. Encased in his lung within the specially constructed £4000 trailer, Fred sees the movies through the mirror above his head. He has given cocktail parties for his friends at the exclusive Indian Creek Golf and Country Club, where the trailer is driven into a patio. Young Snite goes occasionally to the horse and dog races and cheers for his favourites. The elder Snite said that Fred, who was stricken on April 1, 1936, at Peking, China, while on a world tour, was continuing to improve.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 4
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154AN INVALID'S LIFE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 4
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