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Pinprick Campaign. Last fortnight, at B.A.'s Teatro Colon, Peron listed the Government's enemies: the "oligarchy," Opposition politicians, Communists - and La Prensa. Next day the News Vendors' Union, newly organized and recognized by Perón's Labor Ministry, demanded that the paper stop delivering copies straight to subscribers. Home deliveries account for less than a tenth of La Prensa's 387,384 circulation, but to have cut them off would have thrown 250 employees out of work and cost $400,000 in severance...
...year-old patient had a huge tumor that had engulfed his stomach and part of his upper abdomen. Dr. Brunschwig removed: 1) the stomach, 2) half the left lobe of the liver, 3) the body and tail of the pancreas, 4) the spleen, 5) the transverse colon (a section of the large intestine), 6) part of the abdominal wall. Then he connected the esophagus with what was left of the intestinal tract. The patient, left with only part of the intestines to serve as a digestive system, was "quite comfortable" after the operation, "enjoyed his food" (eaten in small, hourly...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...