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As an orthopedic surgeon in World War I, Dr. Morton was struck by the amount of foot trouble and the difficulty of analyzing it. After the war he spent five years as a researcher of the American Museum of Natural History, studying the evolution of the human foot, went on...
Three loose-jointed, lanky, high-scoring mid-Westerners, a rugged defensive guard, and a fast little floor-guard make up the '45 basketball quintet that Coach Al McCoy calls "a strong offensive outfit."
Douglas Bader cracked up bringing an R.A.F. plane out of a slow roll in 1931, woke up with both legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom...
The hospital, which consists of 32 small collapsible buildings, can be unpacked and set up in 24 hours. The buildings are jointed and grooved; once they are unfolded and set up require only tightening of a few stout bolts. Each unit is raised "bout a foot and a half off...
When Chad Hanna appeared in the Saturday Evening Post as Red Wheels Rolling it had the attraction of Walter D. Edmonds's popular writing. Producer Nunnally Johnson's screen treatment glosses over the banality of the plot, becomes a simple, artful study of an ordinary, unimportant man. For...