Word: kirkham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain H. L. D. Kirkham, Navy plastic surgeon, thought it over. When a man's eyes, ears or mouth are burned shut, when his nose or jaw is shot away, plastic surgery can usually restore the face. But the process sometimes takes seven or eight operations, weeks or months apart. Meanwhile the disfigured men usually prefer to stay out of sight in darkened wards. Jack Dawn's "inlays," however, could make many men appear normal between operations. Last week, under Kirkham's eye, a department of prosthesis* was being organized at the hospital. Besides designing new faces...
...have been awarded to three Freshmen. Frederick Goeiz's "The Musician" shows a student trying to play an ocarina while reading from a badly crumpled piece of music. "Sea Breeze," by Walter Rogers, is a picture taken by the seashere with the beach grasses giving way before the wind. Kirkham Cornwell's "Mike" is a sopia picture of a cooker spaniel...