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...G.I.s at Camp Stanley in Korea, Lyndon Johnson became so worked up that he reverted to the Texas storyteller he always was. He told the world that his great-great-grandfather had died at the Alamo. Pure fiction. Knowing a flap was coming, Aide George Christian tried delicately to brace L.B.J. for the outcry. "I never said that," pouted Johnson. Politely as he could, Christian told Johnson that he had heard him say it. "I don't care what you heard," snorted Johnson. "I didn't say it. My great-great-grandfather did not die at the Alamo...
...month since the Rover 3500 driven by Princess Grace of Monaco plunged over the edge of the Moyenne Corniche, the mountain road near her home in Monte Carlo. During that time, Princess Stephanie, 17, has remained a virtual recluse. Last week the princess, moving rigidly in a neck brace, was glimpsed for the first time in public since the accident. Still suffering from a lesion of the seventh vertebra, she attended a memorial Mass for her mother. Though Stephanie had originally planned to begin a course in fashion design this fall in Paris, she will probably join the class early...
...Americans. Van Woert had received a series of grants and special permission from the FDA to treat the disease with the experimental drug L-5HTP (L5-hydroxy-tryptophan), and Dobkin responded well to it. Within eight months she was able to walk with crutches and a neck brace and begin training for a new career as a medical assistant. Eventually she was well enough to have a child...
...DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: VOL.1,1931-1935 Edited by Anne Olivier Bell Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 402 pages...
...Blume's Deenie, the 13-year-old narrator faces disease and ignorance in Elizabeth, NJ. Suffering from scoliosis, Deenie must wear an ugly, uncomfortable back brace. The experience helps her overcome the primitive adolescent fear of being different. But Deenie represents up-to-date psychology as well. Could her curvature of the spine have been caused by occasional masturbation? Set straight by a briskly efficient gym teacher named Mrs. Rappoport, Deenie muses: "I never knew there was a name for what I do. I just thought it was my own special good feeling. Now I wonder...