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That night of the providentially forgotten key was the beginning of a tide of hungry, hard-bitten little boys that has flowed into Mater Dei ever since. At last, one day Father Borelli felt sure enough of success to walk among the scugnizzi in his clerical robes. No one recognized him until he produced a snapshot of himself dressed as a scugnizzo. First they gaped in astonishment, then they crowded in to touch his habit and kiss his hand...
...Natural. Yet on location in Sun Valley, Idaho, Marilyn Monroe managed to surprise the hard-bitten crew with the fire and sincerity of her feeling in a scene where she fights for her lover. And back on the set in Hollywood, she cut loose in some glancing little scenes of character play with a kind of shimmering intensity nobody on the lot had ever seen in her before. Director Logan was amazed. "It just wells up from some deep place," he said wonderingly. "She's a natural...
Within a day 27 of the wolf's 29 victims were trucked into Teheran (the two others straggled in days later). They were promptly bled, so that any antibodies against rabies could be detected, and divided into five groups. Of the 18 bitten on the head, five got two shots of serum, four days apart, plus vaccine, six got one shot of serum plus vaccine, and five got vaccine alone. Of those bitten less severely elsewhere on the body, four got serum (one shot) plus vaccine, and six got vaccine only...
Special treatment was given to three, notably the most hideously bitten victim of all: Golam Khazayi, a boy of six, who had bites on the head too numerous to count. The wolf's massive jaws had chomped right through his skull, and the teeth, piercing the dura mater (parchment-like covering) had dripped rabies virus directly into the brain. Golam already had contracted meningitis through the head wounds. He got penicillin as well as a special course of serum every two days, plus vaccine...
...classes at 8 a.m., snatched a few hours of sleep in the afternoon. He got his M.D. (cum laude) at 26, resigned his telegrapher's job the same day. Meanwhile, his sister Maria had married a prosperous Belo Horizonte surgeon, who made Kubitschek his assistant. A year later, bitten by wanderlust, Kubitschek borrowed money from rich friends and took off for Europe-supposedly to study, but actually to satisfy his itch to see what lay beyond the Belo Horizonte horizon. He did some serious postgraduate work at clinics in Paris. Berlin and Vienna, but he also spent...