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At line-up in Dachau one morning, the Nazi guard ordered the sick and disabled to form on the left, the able-bodied on the right. An instinct of danger swept over one-armed Kurt Schumacher. He stepped to the right and marched off with the ablebodied. The men on...
Among morticians, the mummification of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin has always been something of a mystery. By the time Soviet Embalmers Zbarsky and Vorobyev got to work, the body of the Russian revolutionary leader (who died in 1924) was already a decaying cadaver with brain missing and arteries cut, the result...
Physician Grant is a doctor to warm any patient's heart. In his lecture courses at the university, he scandalizes such colleagues as dandruffy Hume Cronyn by suggesting that a sympathetic bedside manner is as important as the study of anatomy. A disciple of broad-gauged living, Grant also...
Modern Cadaver. Koerner's only similarity to most modern artists lies in his love of theorizing; he can talk as good a picture as he paints. His basic position is that painting has gone as far as possible toward abstraction, and must now return to storytelling: "Art must be...
What makes Charles Dickens such a tough cadaver for the dissector is the fact that he embodied (in the words of his friend Leigh Hunt) "the life and soul ... of 50 human beings." Some of these 50 beings were pretty sleazy characters, and they have been sternly ignored by those...