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Last week the cadaver crisis was viewed with alarm by experts on both sides of the Atlantic: Dr. Neville Goodman of London, Anatomist Melvin Knisely of the University of Chicago, Dr. Howard Curl of the University of Tennessee. The shortage is even worse in Britain than in the U.S.; British...
The cadaver scarcity was growing acute even before the war. For dissection, modern medical schools have to depend almost entirely on derelict, unclaimed bodies. Wartime prosperity, a long-range decline in pauperism and the wider spread of Social Security payments (which include funeral expenses) have cut this source of supply...
Harder Words. Two days later PM echoed Pravda in a three-page editorial by leftish Max Lerner, who could "not escape the slightly nauseating job of dissecting the rotten cadaver of Bullitt's piece." "Why?" he asked rhetorically. "Because this "is the first time that anyone with a veneer...
Chicagoans nostalgically recalled the lush days of gangsterism when Chicago was good for a cadaver a night. Again they wondered when the sawed-offs would bark, wondered whose blood would run and where.
All this had been in Tony's glamorous youth. Now Tony was very old (39). Most of his teeth were gone. It was no longer easy to get the molasses he needed for his diet. His front knees, broken in a film scene long ago, had grown so painfully...