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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...
...Using head, elbows and glove laces with wicked efficiency, Featherweight Champion Joe ("Sandy") Saddler spent twelve rounds at San Francisco's Cow Palace cutting up Filipino Challenger Gabriel ("Flash") Elorde. Finally Flash bled so badly that the referee stopped the fight in the 13th, let Sandy keep his title...
...back-room dentist took out six teeth, but ran into trouble on a seventh. "My gums bled and swelled up so much he couldn't grind any more," she recalls. Despite her pain, the dentist extracted full payment from her before she left. Agnes Jones had to go back again and again to have her gums treated. When she finally got her plates, they fitted so badly that her mouth swelled unbearably. Not until another dentist had her mouth X-rayed was it found that the back-room dentist had broken a tooth and ground it below...
Suffering from an acute sense of insecurity and flickering suspicions, Ann Woodward sometimes created volcanic public scenes with her husband. In El Morocco one night, she scratched Bill Woodward's face until it bled, after he pulled out a handkerchief with a lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped...
...Board the "La Touraine." Even before, many of the students had to take their last final examinations above the ship's engine room. But the heat did not discourage the students, though, as one member of the Club observed: "At the conclusion of each examination, the suffers assem- bled, books in hand, marched twice about the decks, and finally halting at the stern, threw books and notes into the sea with a great shout, much to the edification of the other passengers...