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...Agrossa volunteered to explain. This case involved an Italian couple, and to Italians the bit of old-world folklore had plenty of meaning. The gesture, said Interpreter D'Agrossa, was "what we call cornuto." It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds' heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry. The sign of the horns, he said, should not be confused with the somewhat similar gesture of defense against the evil...
First thing Mayor Bowron did was demand the resignations of the members of all the city's governing commissions from police to parks. Grandstanding District Attorney Buron Fitts then joined the graft hunt, impaneled a grand jury. First graft flushed was in the civil service examinations for promotions in the police and fire departments. When an influential Mexican-born police lieutenant named Peter ("The Thin Man") Del Gado, a great friend of Police Chief James Edgar Davis, denied taking bribes to tamper the examinations, he was indicted for perjury. Last fortnight Thin Man Del Gado gave a friend...
Several days after the children were twinned Dr. Moran noticed that Clara was growing stronger, John weaker. Her red blood cells were increasing, his decreasing. As the tube stretched to 20 inches John grew sick and dizzy, finally developed acute anemia and lapsed into a coma. Giving up the graft experiment, Dr. Moran quickly cut the Siamese twins apart, found that Clara, like a vampire, had drained out John's blood through a net of capillaries which had formed on John's end of the tube. No capillaries had formed on her end of the tube...
...painful healing she was left a hopeless cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, offered to risk his skin. Dr. Moran slit a strip of skin 16 inches long, half-inch wide, from John's armpit to his hip. He rolled it lengthwise into...
...cornea of a rabbit. The difference between the human cornea and the rabbit cornea is that the latter is larger and deeper. If this operation proves successful I will perform a second operation on Hoffman's right eye, using the rabbit cornea as a base, and over this graft a human cornea. Whether or not his sight will again be normal, or near normal, is problematical...