Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was little time to lose. In his fortress prison on the Ile de Yeu, the man who once dragged that he would live to be no was rapidly failing. By special dispensation he was no longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge him on his record. The last paragraph in his will explained...
Last week, the Navy's Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. announced that it had given No. 311 as thorough and exhaustive a going-over as any pig ever had. Now grown to a hulking 600-pounder, she will live out her days at Washington's National Zoological Park. Then the Navy medics want the carcass for an autopsy, just in case they have missed something. Pig No. 311 appears to be normal in every way except one: she is sterile. Was this the A-bomb's fault? Said a Navy spokesman cagily: ". . . Not necessarily . . . Ordinarily, enough...
...John was given four operations, spread over eight months. Surgeon Frank L. Meany built a new bridge for his nose and thinned his lips. All his misshapen teeth were pulled and he got false teeth. The usual cost of all this facial improvement would have been around $3,000; John paid only $35 for dental material...
Psychiatrists are hopeful. that John's new face has given him a new life.*Said Dr. Royal Grossman: "I felt his appearance was a factor in his maladjustment ... He reacted in the only way he knew how. It's like hauling off a'-d punching the wall when you're frustrated. I'm gratified with the way he's getting along up to now. If he lives by society's conventions and laws for ten years I'll know we have accomplished something." Surgeon Meany is more optimistic about a lasting happy...
...Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount of determination...