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Today more than 100,000 Americans are wearing a lifesaving bracelet designed to prevent such accidents. It was made originally for Linda Collins of Turlock, Calif., who was so hypersensitive to tetanus antitoxin serum that the tiny amount used in a scratch test* after she cut her finger one day in 1956 made her collapse in convulsions. Her father, Surgeon Marion Collins, figured that a full dose of antitoxin would have killed Linda; he decided that for future protection his daughter should wear a dog tag proclaiming her allergy. Linda talked him into making the tag into a silver bracelet...
...Collins went further: he set up the nonprofit Medic-Alert Foundation. Subscribers pay $5 each for a bracelet and a lifetime medical record kept on file at Turlock. The tag bears the snake staff of Aesculapius and the words "Medic Alert." On the other side is a warning, such as "Diabetic," "Skindiver" (subject to the bends), "Hemophilia," "Allergic to Penicillin." Engraved along with the warning are the wearer's identification number and the injunction "Phone 209-634-4917." Calls may be made collect, the clock around...
...endless jungles in the worst storms in 30 years." But upcountry among the Ibans (or Sea Dyaks), whose life is simple, tedious and poor, he was greeted with a traditional welcoming ceremony called the bedara, offered a wine to appease the spirits he brought with him, and a brass bracelet to signify friendship. Schecter cabled home: "I suppose it's work, but camping in a longhouse with bare-breasted girls who gently tip cups of sweet rice wine to your lips is more like an ex-New York writer's idea of nirvana...
Sivard's "touch of humor" is in all his paintings, though it sometimes takes a jeweler's loupe to read all the fine print. In one painting a Paris streetwalker in all the trappings of her profession, from necklace cross to handbag to ankle bracelet, loiters in her doorway next to the Hôtel Beau Séjour. There will be no séjour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with...
...wife Caroline, an impulsive romantic, whose affair with Lord Byron was the scandal of the time. When Byron finally left her, she made her servants wear buttons with the inscription ''Ne Crede Byron [Do not believe Byron]" and slashed her wrists; Byron retaliated by sending her a bracelet made of the hair of his latest paramour...