Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colt. The saga of "Happy" Chandler has been vividly before the Kentucky electorate for the past eight years. By heart the voters know how he was born to poor parents in Corydon, how his mother left his father in 1902 when Happy was four,* how he sold newspapers and did odd jobs while getting through high school. A 170-pounder, 5 ft. 10½ in., compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry...
Instantly killed were 34, including Lieutenant Abadia. Many of the 150 injured were taken to hospitals where eight later died. There were no serious injuries among diplomats or dignitaries, although a few had to snuff out drops of burning gasoline. A broken part which came hurtling off the plane bruised the wife of the Japanese Charge d'Affaires...
...gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from 19 to 65. Meanwhile, his writers turned out a script for a "rollickin', rootin', tootin', shootin' drama of the Great Outdoors...
From sheer whimsicality, the mythical Greek giant Procrustes stretched short men out to fit a long bed. Eight years ago, Los Angeles' Dr. Alvia Brockway decided to try a scientific Procrustean operation on his patients, who, cured of infantile paralysis or tuberculosis of the hip, hobbled about with one leg shorter than the other. Last week he announced in California and Western Medicine that of 75 operations performed in the Orthopaedic Hospital, 90% were successful...
...until the leg is stretched. The patient feels no pain during the stretching. Three inches is the maximum stretch. The tendons are also snipped in a Z-pattern, pulled to the desired length at once, stitched tight. Blood vessels, nerves and smaller muscles adjust themselves naturally. Five to eight months after the operation, the pins are removed and the patient again has use of his leg. If the operation is performed on children around 12, the short leg usually grows in length as fast as the normal leg. In a few cases, when patients attained their full height, they discovered...