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Rubber Noses. People whose ears are slashed off in auto accidents, or whose noses are eaten away by cancer, cannot always have new ones made of flesh-&-blood grafts. At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Arthur H. Bulbulian, a trained sculptor, molds artificial noses and ears so rosy and translucent that only an eagle eye can spot them as fakes. Dr. Bulbulian uses "prevulcanized liquid latex," a creamy rubber compound, which can be tinted delicately before it hardens...
...settler of 1644, son of a country gentleman and the belle of the Hudson River valley, was head of the last great democracy still at peace, with 33 weeks left of his second term. Yet, although he was in his eighth year as President, although he had moved, worked, eaten, laughed, exhorted, prayed in the intensest glare of public scrutiny; although his every facial grimace, the tone of his voice, each mannerism, the dark mole over his left eyebrow, the mole on his right cheek-although all these were public property, intimate to every U. S. citizen, still there...
...life of Eire's great Poet William Butler Yeats (died 1939, at 73) was a wild-goose chase after poetical wisdom-a chase that did not end before the goose was caught, cooked and eaten. How Yeats swallowed his bird-beak, bones and feathers-he has told in detail in his classic Autobiography. How the meal sat on his stomach is made plain in his motley, fearful, sometimes scabrous, more often superb Last Poems & Plays...
...Belgium' or 'poor Holland,' " wrote anonymous Commentator "Blackshirt" in Bologna's Resto del Carlino the day after Germany's new invasion began last week (see p. 22). "It is not for Fascist Italy to lament the fate that has overtaken two sanctionist countries, worm-eaten by democracy and anti-Fascism...
...Edmund Newton Harvey was once reported eaten by cannibals near the Torres Strait south of New Guinea, but the U. S. Department of State later announced that the report was exaggerated. Having done biological research from Maine to Puget Sound, from Tortugas to California, in Naples, Bermuda, the Philippines, Java, The Netherlands East Indies, Dr. Harvey, safe & sound, is now a professor of biology at Princeton. His wife. Ethel Browne Harvey, is a distinguished biologist. For a quarter-century. Edmund Harvey has experimented much, read enormously, to learn all he could about the phenomenon of bioluminescence-production of light...