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Concerning the Hartley case letters of Valeski and Varallyay in TIME, Feb. 1: It is a sad commentary on our progressive civilization to find people today who allow primitive emotion to overshadow entirely the nobler aspects of Dr. Vance Chattin's dedicated efforts to save the Hartley boys, regardless of their physical deformity...
...should have become identical twins, but the separation was never completed. When Margaret Hartley's time came, the doctors could not complete a normal delivery. Since they could detect heartbeats, it was their duty to give the fetus every chance of entering the world alive. So Dr. Vance Chattin did a Caesarean section...
...offspring proved to be what medical archivists call a monster, a boy (or boys) with two heads, four arms, a fused trunk and two legs. Without letting Mrs. Hartley see the baby, Dr. Chattin got it breathing. Then he rushed it to the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital in Indianapolis. There, this week, the baby astonished medical men by continuing to live. And the Chicago Daily News shocked its readers (especially mothers-to-be) by printing its picture...
...LLOYD G. CHATTIN New Brunswick...
...Manhattan, John Franklin Chattin, 24, art student, committed suicide. In his room the landlady found some old sketches, mostly grotesque faces, an essay that fumbled with sad puerility at a definition of mortality, a note saying: "What does it all matter anyhow?" and a copy of Death of a Young Man by W. L. Rivers (see p. 38 for a review...