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...eminent physicians in New York received a tel phone message to hurry over to a home in the upper Eighties, off Park Avenue." The physician "was conducted upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused her extreme pain. Solution: the physician called for carpenter's tools, removed sill & lady, soaked her loose with gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sill Story | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...Kolyumist Kitchen presented his story as fact. It was, however, invented and told (without euphemisms) at the last meeting of the American Society for the Control of Cancer by a waggish Manhattan surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sill Story | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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