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Whatever their opinions about Fascism in America, Harvard students are shown by Coop sales to prefer "It Can't Happen Here" to other new flexion releases...
...dozen cases to show what he meant. One of them concerned a Miss T. S. who suffered a severe attack of infantile paralysis when she was 5. When Dr. Truslow saw her eight years later, "she walked with two crutches, right leg decidedly knock-kneed and with a flexion deformity, 20° outward rotation of leg, right foot in equinovarus; moderate scoliosis...
...Truslow operated on her right shin bone, just below the knee, to correct the knock-knee, knee flexion and outward flexion of that...
...Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life is for the Apes...