The Michiqon Daily Reagan, Brady moving rapidly From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - President Reagan, making "super" progress, took four walks around his hospital suite yester- day while life support tubes remained fixed in his chest and nose. He told two visiting senators, "I found out it hurts to get shot." After his best night's sleep since an apparent ricochet bullet tore into his left lung in Monday's assassination at- tempt, the president was in "extremely good spirits" according to his personal physician. REAGAN WALKED for 50 yards yesterday morning, then, joined by wife Nancy, ventured out of his room again in the late afternoon. A late afternoon medical bulletin issued by the White House said the president walked twice more during the day as part of his regular exercise and that he "continues to make excellent progress." Qualified medical sources reported that in the moments after Reagan arrived at the hospital emergency room, doctors "thought they might lose him" because he was hemorrhaging in- ternally although there was no in- dication he had been shot. HOSPITA L SPOKESMAN Dr. Dennis O'Leary "flatly" denied the president was ever in danger of dying from the wound;. But he acknowledged that his own information came second- and third-hand. Direct sources, including a senior physican involved, said that Reagan had lost nearly half his blood. The president, conducting brief business yesterday, signed a routine poclamation and spent 10 minutes toward recovery early in the morning with White House chief of staff James Baker III and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. He also met with Vice President George Bush, and with Senate Majority Leader- Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee and Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), a personal friend and key congressional supporter. Meanwhile, Press Secretary Jim Brady, whose brain was pierced by a bullet in Monday's assassination at- tempt, was reportedly showing ''astounding progress"~ two days after surgeons removed part of his brain. BRADY WAS SAID to have "played catch" with a cotton ball and wiggled his left arm and foot, activities that were noted as "good functions of some rather complex nerve pathways." Doctors reported that Brady, when asked how he was feeling, gave the thumbs-up signal and replied, "fine, fine." "Mr. Brady's post operative status continues to improve," the George Washington University Medical Center doctors said. "He appears clearer men- tally. He held a restricted conversation _______________ with his physician this afternoon." Tikt $.0 1 v * *b*e -tSh Earlier, O'Leary said, "We are a long k d * n A * r *o * way from home on Mr. Brady," but of f-c noted the press secretary's satisfactory progress. l~i Come to a "Career ISn Te HealthSciene AlterativeTo Th a. M.D. "Workshop El ii 'a a * .4 RI Ii.' 4 * qI 4- ~1 4 a.. '4 'A '9 '.7, 44 A V 4. 9. 9. 9., *4 At, 4 4, 4 4 a. a 4 a. '9 "4, a. a. A a. a. * 4.. * * Panel of women in public health, basic research, nursing/community health, and the pharmaceutical industry * In formal discussion * Information * Coffee SatudayA pril 4 9:30 A.M.- 12:00 noon East Conference R oom, Rackham Sponsored by the U-M Women in Science Program Center for Continuing Education of Women 330 Thompson st. Ann Arbor 48109 (313) 764-2382 w M MOM m @EEMN AP Photo