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When photographers proposed dropping their plates over the rail to waiting messengers to speed delivery. Hagerty said no. Instead, some of the eleven used Polaroid attachments so they could develop their film in the elevator, on the way to Wirephoto transmitters which had been specially rigged in the hospital basement. As a result, photographers were transmitting photos within five minutes after Hagerty's "O.K., fellows, that's all." Newsmen were well pleased. Looking back over the roughest five weeks in his life, so was Jim Hagerty. Said he : "Aside from bedpans and such, I don't think there's one thing that happened that we didn't put out."