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...years Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu has intermittently suffered from an abscessed lung. Until last week 18 operations, including the insertion of three platinum ribs, had been performed on him by a brilliant German surgeon, General Professor Doctor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, whose patients once included the late King George V of England...
...another vice chairman in charge of coordinating Army & Navy needs with production schedules, he chose practical, resourceful Financier Ferdinand Eberstadt, chairman since last January of the Army & Navy Munitions Board...
...Falangistas intended to kill War Minister General José Varela, twice winner of Spain's Grand Laureled Cross of St. Ferdinand, who relieved the siege of the Alcazar in Spain's preview of World War II. The grenade killed four people, but not General Varela. He demanded Serrano's scalp and the execution of the Falangistas involved. (A Madrid dispatch broadcast from Germany last week reported that one Juan José Dominguez was executed "for throwing hand grenades...
During World War I an ingenious German surgeon, Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, developed a plastic operation to link the muscles of an amputated stump to an artificial arm so efficiently that the live muscles could operate the fingers of an artificial hand. In a new book two German refugee surgeons describe the classic Sauerbruch technique (Cineplastic Operations on Stumps of the Upper Extremity; Grune & Stratton...
Once stout supporters of President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, the brothers have subsequently decided that Arroyo, a good friend of the U.S., was a Ferdinand-the-bull in the Peruvian war, is now showing signs of timidity in the war against the Axis. With other ins and outs in Ecuadorian politics, they are awaiting a possible blowup this week. Congressional elections will test the strength of Arroyo and goat-bearded old Julio Moreno, President of the Senate, who hopes to succeed him. The elections may also bring to a head the almost continuous political crisis following the peace pact...