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...femur fibula humerus patella tarsal tibia
...Weeks' Wait. After lunch the President went back to his mother's one-and-a-half story frame house to find out what the doctors had to say. The diagnosis: "Complete fracture at the neck of the right femur." Traction should pull the bone into good position, they told him, and she might be out of bed in six weeks...
Things were considerably worse at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where, it is reported, Mrs. Siy, the early-shift char, came in to find a femur of the long-jawed dactyl bearing the legend: "Lamarck was here." At the Jefferson Physic Laboratory, a freckle-faced bootblack was captured brining a candle at both ends and rapidly making calculations...
...England General Hospital in Atlantic City last week was a wounded soldier with a strangely mended femur (thighbone). The man had been treated by the Germans, his captors...
...Turkey departed, Winston Churchill stayed on in Cairo until this week (when he turned up in Gibraltar). He discussed the Pacific War with Major General Richard K. Sutherland, General Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff. He called on King Farouk I of Egypt (confined with a broken femur after an automobile accident), lunched with George II of Greece. Churchill dined with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, conferred with Harold Macmillan, British Minister in North Africa, and held an off-the-record press conference. Through it all he was usually with his old crony and adviser, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts...