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...Olivia Holguin's legs had been useless from birth; she had a twisted wrist and a deformed hand. At 30, she seemed hopelessly crippled. But early this year, Orthopedic Surgeon S. Perry Rogers of El Paso amputated her legs and got ready to fit artificial limbs. Since El Paso has no bone bank, Dr. Rogers (with the patient's permission) kept the amputated bones in his food freezer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Improvised Bone Bank | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...Villa-Lobos is not the sole South American composer of well-made songs, dances, Parisian-sounding salon pieces. Others: Brazil's Fernandez and Mignone, Uruguay's Pedrell and Broqua, Argentina's Ficher, Chile's Santa Cruz, Peru's Sas, Colombia's Uribe-Holguin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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