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Snipped Fingers. The first known case, said Dr. McKusick at Bar Harbor, was born in 1860. Though the Amish average a couple of inches shorter than the general U.S. population, there is no mistaking the deformity. Ellis-van "Creveld dwarfs range in height from only 40 to 60 inches. They have six fingers on each hand, the extra one being on the outside of the hand beyond the little finger. Sometimes (but not consistently) there is a sixth toe on one foot or both. Although it is not conspicuous at birth, many dwarf babies have an abnormal heart with only...
...McKusick among the Amish in more than a dozen communities. It is a new kind of genetic defect. Doctors who earlier noticed cases of this kind of dwarfism among the Amish mistook it for achondroplasia, a form made familiar by Velásquez's paintings of dwarfs as court jesters, with short arms and legs, a large head and a "scooped-out" nose. But Dr. McKusick's team found significant differences. These Amish dwarfs do not have big heads or misshapen noses. Aside from their short arms and legs (from a defect in their cartilage), their only other...
Certainly, the prevalence of these bad genes has had little effect on fertility: five CHH dwarf men have married normal women and have had normal children. But one CHH dwarf married a CHH woman, and she has borne three CHH dwarf children...
...those who may legitimately have felt that Olivier's magnificent film would dwarf future stage productions of Henry V, Guthrie's production is a revelation. The scope and sweep of action that he crams into "the wooden O" are astonishing. The arena stage helps, since action initiated offstage picks up tremendous momentum by the time it hits the stage: Guthrie sends soldiers winging down the aisles like javelins...
...which the vulgar Prince Prospero and all his company succumb when Death appears disguised as a plague victim. In the elegant, elongated movie version, Prospero is a Satanist who scourges the entire 12th century countryside. He tortures peasants, tries to corrupt a village maid, and lets his pet dwarf barbecue a guest. Fortunately, by the time Death gets to the party, most of the nicer people have fled...