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...Theodore Joslin who may put it before the President. If it looks political, it goes to Political Secretary Walter Newton. If it looks personal, it is sent to Detective Secretary Lawrence Richey. If it is none of these, it finds its way to the office of Executive Clerk Rudolph Forster who replies with a stock acknowledgment from the White House form book. After Mail Clerk Smith has sorted the President's mail, Head Messenger Joe Sheehan comes around, scoops it up, distributes it to the different secretaries. The chances are 1,000-to-1 against the President...
Died. Mrs. Albert Forster's gut-joined twin daughters, one 17 days, the other 23 days after birth and the operation which cut their bond (TIME, July 20); from failing to gain strength to endure operations which might have made their body outlets natural and useful; in Baltimore's Mercy Hospital...
Obstetricians at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore last week were at first vexed by the labor of delivering twins from Mrs. Albert Forster, wife of a railroad brakeman. Then they were dumbfounded by the discovery that the twins were a monster joined abdominally by a tube more than a foot long. Finally the doctors were delighted: the twins lived after being cut apart...
...Forster twins are females in appearance. Both lack anal openings, which is an early embryonic condition. Like young animal embryos and full grown birds, each has a single opening, or cloaca, for its urogenital and rectal passages. The tube which joined these children contained the great gut (colon) of both...
When Dr. Kyle Wood Golley and Dr. Edward Patrick Smith saw what Mrs. Forster was producing, they sent a hurry call for Surgeon Daniel James Pessagno. He cut the children apart, left each about an inch of colon. He used no anesthetic, for newborn children feel no pain. Since it is possible to exist without a colon, Mrs. Forster's children may live long. If so, surgeons will try to naturalize their orifices...