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King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...
...operation: two canals are fashioned In the muscles of the arm, one in the flexors, one in the extensors. The surgeon marks out a two-inch square of skin above the elbow or wrist (on a handless arm), cuts it at the top, bottom and one outer edge. Then he rolls the upper and lower sides of the skin into a little tube and stitches them together. This leaves the underlying muscle exposed...
...south panel (see cut) gave a Marxist-eye-view of the history of Chile. It was dominated by a gigantic figure of the Araucanian Indian chief Galvarino, roaring and waving the stumps of his handless arms (mutilated by the Spaniards) over a group of prone Spanish soldiers, like a mad maestro leading an infernal symphony. Over his shoulders glared the faces of Revolutionists Francisco Bilbao (with beard) and Araucanian Chief Caupolican (with one blind eye). Behind them, clutching a Chilean flag, swayed the small figure of Chile's liberator, Bernardo O'Higgins. The two panels were connected...
...19th century, and was never repaired. If this is the case, it shows exceedingly poor spirit in the Maintenance Department. An old alibi in the archives speaks of removing the machinery to the church opposite, but the church was not built until 1833, three years after the earliest handless picture. Another flaw in the church excuse is that President Weber put a sundial on the building in 1810, so the clock must have run down before then. Anyway, the archive record says that the Board of Overseers was to appoint a committee to see that the churchmen kept their clock...
...ruined weekend belonged to Mr. Hoover. His Memorial Day holiday in Manhattan was rudely interrupted when the headless, handless, footless corpse of Peter Levine, 12, kidnapped from New Rochelle last February, was washed ashore in Long Island Sound. This was the first recurrence since 1936 of the post-Prohibition atrocities which FBI thought it had stamped out by relentless sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been...