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...rose, Mrs. Rogers felt something snap in her back. X rays disclosed a compression fracture, with one vertebra crushed. But despite the injury to her spinal column, she suffered no paralysis. This week, fitted with a special brace, she is at St. Joseph's Hospital. What amazes Mrs. Rogers' physician, Dr. William A. Moore III, is the fact that she could have exerted herself at all. She had been ill at home for two weeks, recovering from a rheumatic disorder of the left knee and an attack of thrombophlebitis in her right leg. How far she might have...
...MAPS OF HELL (161 pp.)-Kingsley Amis-Harcourf, Brace...
...Windsor and Cardiff castles, and as far away as Gibraltar and Accra. Over Buckingham Palace the Queen's huge ceremonial standard was unfurled, and to all ships and shore stations the Admiralty sent a signal: "Birth of a son to H.M. Queen Elizabeth announced. Splice the main brace." As messages poured in from governments all over the world, 81-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield worked over a bit of verse that began: "O child descended from a line of kings...
...seemed about to chirp a childish "May I take your coat?" At one side of the powder room stood Nadelman's painted bronze Woman, attentive as a lady-in-waiting. At the other side arched Robus' rainbowlike, semi-abstract Woman Washing Her Hair. The washroom offered a brace of sporting dogs by Hunt Diederich, and in its paneled lounge stood Epstein's mournful, supplicating Hannah...
...MERRY MUSE (317 pp.)-Eric Linklater-Harcourt, Brace...