Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey had their time of glory and then fell back exhausted, Ed has thrived and grown stronger in the heat of conflict. The battleground of TV is strewn with entertainers who could not quite stay the course-Red Buttons, Wally Cox, George Jessel, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger, Bing Crosby. Sullivan is the first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island...
...gauze. In a month his wounds had healed enough for the doctors to start skin grafts. They covered 20% of the burned area with skin from Madeira's left arm, then began looking around for a new source of supply. It was unfortunate, Chief Surgeon Major Philip A. Cox remarked to Madeira, that he did not have an identical twin, since only skin from the patient's own body or from such a twin would do for a permanent graft. Replied Madeira: "I have...
...Major Cox fired off a teletype message to Washington. Four days later, as he was sitting down to lunch in Munsan, Korea, Army Cook Charles Ronald Madeira was told that he had emergency leave, in 15 minutes had started on the first leg of his trip to Germany. On the way, Charles Madeira, who had not seen his brother since they left their home town, Reading, Pa., a year and a half ago, had some reservations ("They ain't hacking off none of my skin for nobody"). Later he decided to go through with the operation...
...Wiesbaden, Major Cox decided on the basis of preliminary evidence that Rodney and Charles were, indeed, identical twins. (He will not be positive until the grafts have been given enough time to take. Normally, because the skins of different individuals have biological differences, grafts from one person to another wither and disappear within 30 to 60 days, although they have temporary value as a protective covering.) The twins were wheeled into separate operating rooms. Surgeons took from Charles' thighs and lower legs twelve strips two in. wide, 12 to 14 in. long and thirteen-thousandths of an inch thick...
...Liebman Presents (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Heidi, with Wally Cox...