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...Gregory Gallico, a plastic surgeon at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, used skin grown in Green's laboratories to cover the burned bodies, gaining press attention from across the country...
...technique, developed by Dr. Howard Green of Harvard Medical School, has been used on six other burn patients, none with injuries as serious as those of the Selby boys. Says Plastic Surgeon G. Gregory Gallico III of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Burns Institute, both in Boston, and head of the team that treated the brothers: "These boys had no other hope for survival, so we agreed to try." That the experimental treatment could even be attempted is a tribute to the heroic efforts of the emergency room at Memorial Hospital of Natrona County, Wyo., where the children were...
...test-tube" skin is "shiny and pink and smooth," says Gallico. But it differs from normal tissue in several ways. It lacks hair follicles and sweat glands, which does not appear to be a problem. The new skin is also thinner than natural tissue, having no dermis. The Boston team cautions that it will take years to assess the success of cultured skin, but, says Gallico, "it appears permanent and durable." Still, Jamie and Glen Selby "shouldn't go out and play football," warns Green. The brothers face more skin grafts, plastic surgery and physical therapy, but their most...
...from Hamlet to Godspell, from a transvestite Arsenic and Old Lace to a studiously Edwardian The Doctor's Dilemma. Phillips will direct four of the nine main stage productions and co-direct three more. (The schedule also includes five children's shows, adapted from stories by Paul Gallico.) The actors, many of them veterans of the Phillips era at Stratford, work in true repertory: a weekend visitor can see four plays in two days; at its peak during December, the Grand will offer seven main stage shows and three children's plays. With only modest government...
...unusual result for fighters of any day, he kept some of the money. Before settling into the window table at Jack Dempsey's Broadway restaurant in Manhattan, he tried a little barnstorming, some refereeing. Always he was available to bat out an occasional dilettante, like Writer Paul Gallico or Financier J. Paul Getty. After he closed the restaurant in 1974, Dempsey returned full time to being heavyweight champ...