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Hailed as a great man and a boon to the nation, Lanza drank deep of fame-and promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none...
...party in her Capri villa, Gracie (The Biggest Aspidistra in the World) Fields, durable (53) darling of the British music halls, stood by her Christmas tree to croon a little ditty ("I'm an old goat, but I'm so in love with him"). Then she surprised her guests with the announcement that she plans to marry again. Her third husband-to-be: a 48-year-old Bessarabian-born engineer and radio repairman named Alperovici, whom she calls simply "Honest Boris." "The only thing Boris cannot do," said Gracie, "is sing. We went for a walk this morning...
Sound Advice. In Chicago, after his wife explained why she was bringing suit for separate maintenance, Richard Michalak received, among more than 500 sure cures for snoring, suggestions that he 1) eat three small onions on retiring, 2) have his tonsils out, 3) drink goat's milk with all meals, 4) get some blood transfusions, 5) wrap a rubber tourniquet around his neck...
Spring Offensive. Near Port Arthur, Ont., when three cops showed up at Louis Damill's farm with a search warrant, Damill's nettled nanny goat 1) grabbed the warrant and chewed half of it, 2) butted one of the officers, 3) broke loose from the barn after they locked her in, 4) routed the three from the premises...
...Goat. Dunham insisted that Dawson himself had never tried to influence him on a RFC loan. But, he conceded, "I think I have outlived my usefulness with the RFC." He had tentatively written out a resignation several weeks ago, he said, and gone to Florida for a vacation. There he got a call from RFC's Vice Chairman G. Edward Rowe. Rowe thought it "imperative" that he resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter...