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...Washington last week a Negro boy and girl giggled in ignorant embarrassment because a plastic surgeon was about ready to bind them closer than wedlock. A year ago Clara Howard, 13, emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire. Her apron caught fire and she was hospitalized with terrible first degree burns. When she was discharged she had no skin left on her torso, arms and neck. Scars held the flesh of her arms to the flesh of her sides. She could not turn her head because the lower part of her chin had grown to her chest...
...best kind of skin graft which grows on denuded flesh is skin taken from some other part of the same body. Clara Howard, however, cannot endure the further shock of such autogenous grafting from her unburned legs. So Professor Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University undertook something utterly new in restorative surgery...
...Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, who volunteered, Dr. Moran made two parallel slices from the left armpit straight down the side to the left hip. This week Dr. Moran will separate the strip of skin between the incisions from the underlying flesh and clip the long edges together to make a tube attached at one end to the boy's armpit, the other to his hip. As the bared flesh heals, new blood vessels will form in the tube of flesh -blood vessels which will nourish it during the next and more difficult stage...
...Wausau, Wis., Mrs. Clara Kohl, 50, applied to her local relief bureau for funds to divorce her husband in order that she might remarry. She was finally refused after the district attorney ruled that divorce fees did not constitute "relief" within the legal meaning of the word...
...Undefeated or untied by any eleven this season Santa Clara's "Bronchos," after a scoreless first quarter, mowed down weak, eager Marquette. Most notable of the six touchdowns was a one-hand catch after a 42-yd. dash. Score: Santa Clara 38, Marquette...