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South Shore Music Circus (Cohasset): telephone EV...
...August 11: "Flower Drum Song" starring Betty Ann Grove. Shore Music Circus (Cohasset): telephone EV...
Exercise the Right. Within two days, the sturdy young patient was taking regular meals. He now feeds himself with his left hand. After five days, his temperature was normal, and the wound showed no sign of infection. But this meant no respite. Last week the plastic surgeons took Ev back to the operating room, pared big patches of half-thickness skin from his right thigh, and grafted the patches onto the raw areas near his armpit...
Though similar operations have succeeded in animals-at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, also in Boston, dogs are running around on severed and resewn legs-it is too early to tell how well the surgeons succeeded with Ev Knowles. "The greatest danger," said Dr. Shaw, "is of infection in an artery. If that developed, the arm would have to be sacrificed to save the patient from the danger of possibly fatal hemorrhages." The most nearly comparable U.S. case ended in failure after seven months, when California surgeons had to amputate the resewn leg of Mechanic Billy Smith (TIME...
...part and his if this boy is to regain the use of his arm," said Dr. Shaw. "If it is completely numb, it will be only a dangling decoration, and no triumph." To ward off that grim possibility, even in advance of nerve surgery, physiotherapists are already teaching Ev Knowles to use his fast-healing left hand to work the joints of his pink but nerveless right...