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...blood clot next to the bone. The clot became infected and inflamed, spreading the bad infection into the bone. There was talk of amputation. Penicillin and diathermy saved the leg, but while such infections can be curbed, they are sometimes impossible to cure. Mickey, who must guard against flare-ups of the infection, has had his share of poison-pen letters demanding to know why he is not fighting in Korea. On medical advice, Mickey's draft board has rejected him three times...
Congressional budget-slicers showed few signs of being impressed. Barring a new flare-up in Communist aggression, G.O.P. House and Senate leaders guessed they would be lucky to get the $5.8 billion program out of Congress (by midsummer) with an even $5 billion...
...revolution continued, with some sporadic flare-shooting on the side. ¶ Warner Bros., which stopped production and cut salaries a month ago, announced "44 top-bracket pictures," to be released by September 1954. Since 20 of these have already been completed, actual production will be down about one-third. Warners is preparing a new 3-D system: "widescreen WarnerScope," described as a new process under development for "many years . . . With expansive use of 3-D photography . . . Warner Color and WarnerPhonic Sound ... we have just begun to tap the enormous resources . . ." ¶ M-G-M is cutting its output nearly...
...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...
Beneath the wan light of flare shells, the war in Indo-China moved into the seventh year. Said a red-haired Foreign Legionnaire: "We now have the oldest war in the world." To the "Moles of Nasan" the usually frugal French commissary sent Australian beefsteaks, fried potatoes, vegetables, fresh bread, Algerian wine and 3,000 bottles of champagne-one bottle for every four men in the dusty, embattled airstrip. Thai and Vietnamese troops got frozen meat, dried fish and rice; the North Africans had wine, live sheep and goats, brought in by airlift. In a dugout mess 25 feet underground...