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...swathed his injured spine, holding his neck and back rigid. His weight had dropped from 111 to 90 pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...
Crutches & Canes. Battered Paul Ryan, who is still so pain-ridden that he can sleep for only an hour at a time and can hobble only short distances on a cane, was already a success at 40, when he was disabled in the Chicago crash. Pennsylvania-born, he had worked as a roustabout in Oklahoma oilfields, earned an engineering degree at M.I.T., became a sales engineer for Shell, rose to president of Cleveland's National Refining Co. After the accident, Ryan sold out of the company, lived on courage and painkillers as he struggled to walk again...
...also made headlines last week. John Given Jr.. 44-year-old heir to a piece of the Heinz pickle fortune, was asked to leave Brigantine, N.J. because of an intoxicated trigger finger. Given, who was in trouble back in 1948 for threatening an old man with a sword cane, set off a disturbance last week by visiting a children's party with five pistols, and firing blank cartridges in salvos while the kiddies fled, screaming, from every exit...
Since a woman's place in this man's world is to grow and prepare his food, a Kogi man's idea of a good catch is a lass with a workhorse physique. He helps in the fields (sugar cane, turnips, potatoes) as little as he can. He and his wife live in separate conical houses. Daily, the woman cooks a thin soup of vegetables, sets it on a terrace outside her house, where her husband comes to eat. Nights, she lures him to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup...
Logs & Diaries. Today, at 84, she knows as much about the Archives as anyone alive. Week after week, supported by her ebony cane, she still makes her way from the Hotel Cristina to the hushed chambers of the Casa de la Lonja. There, head bent low, she still pores over the endless viceroys' reports, ships' logs and diaries. But in all the decades she has been in Seville, her chief target has never changed: today, she is the world's leading expert on Columbus' crew...