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Faye Emerson Roosevelt was recovering nicely from a minor razor gash on her wrist (eight stitches were taken, but only for what her doc Lor called "esthetic" reasons) and a major attack of tabloid headlines. After the first front-page flurries about an attempt at suicide had subsided, she and Elliott told their story: she had really cut her wrist accidentally while reaching for some aspirin...
Guinea Pigs. One of McIndoe's first patients was a flyer named Paul Hart. Flames had burned away his nose; his cheeks were raw; his eyelids, eyebrows and chin were gone; his mouth was crushed to an ugly, gaping gash. Some 25 operations and 3½ years later, Paul had recovered his face. Today, he and his young wife are running one of the most prosperous bulb farms in England...
...Denver, Don Gallegos watched his wife scrape off fingernail polish with a paring knife, said, "I bet you're afraid to stick me," ended up with a deep gash across his chest...
...looked out of the window and saw a huge gash from the front porch to the dining room. I said, 'We've 'ad it.' My mate, who sleeps in the same room, said: 'We ain't 'ad it, we're still 'ere.' 'E was right. 'Twas then I saw the Union Jack still flying...
That night United's flight No. 14, Denver-bound from Boise, Idaho, vanished into the stormy dark over Wyoming. Next day, search-plane pilots glimpsed a ragged gash in the snow near the 11,000-ft. summit of Wyoming's blizzard-swept Elk Mountain. For two days, ground parties fought 75-mile-an-hour winds to reach the peak. When they did, they found flight 14, scattered over a quarter mile of rock and ice. The dead: 21. The cause: unknown...