Miami Beach, Apr. 1
Frederick Snite, Jr., stricken with infantile paralysis in Peiping more than two years ago, to-day was host to 800 youths here on the occasion of his "anniversary party" marking the commencement of the third year of living in an iron lung.
His father, a wealthy Chicago department store owner, disclosed that continued improvement of his son's condition was enabling him to leave the lung ior twenty-minute periods daily.
The "ran in the iron lung" was in a happy mood and asked his guests to donate funds io Chinese charity organizations. Smilingly, he remarked, "during the past two years these gadgets called respirators have furnished me with 16,- 000,000 breaths."—United Press,
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