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William James Hall is "a white blotch on the skyline" and Larsen Hall a "fortress turned away from the world." according to an article in the Boston Sunday Herald Magazine...
Hanging by a Ribbon. Carl L. Larsen, just out of the Navy, was trying out his powerful new motorcycle that summer day in 1962 when he lost control and rammed a driveway culvert. His severed right foot hung by a ribbon of skin and other tissues; its two major arteries had been cut. By the time he was carried to Oakland's Highland Hospital, his bloodless leg was a deathly white, mottled with blue. Amputation seemed unavoidable. But Larsen was a young giant (then 22) in top physical condition, and a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Walter...
Sutures for Tendons. Larsen spent weeks in a cast and a year on crutches. He needed more bone grafts before he could walk with a leg brace and go to work, standing all day at a bench, repairing ignition armatures. With no tendon attachments, he could not bend his ankle, and although he got along for two more years with a gimpy gait, Dr. Byers was not satisfied. Last December he got Larsen back into the hospital, where orthopedists freed three major tendons from masses of scar tissue both above and below the old break, and joined them with steel...
Last week, out of a cast again but still wearing a brace, Larsen could move his foot and walk with only a moderate hitch in his stride. He insists that he will soon be playing tennis again. As to why there had been no prompt report of the surgical feat, Dr. Byers says: "In 1962, I didn't know that it hadn't been done before, and the job wasn't complete until the patient could move his toes...
...Larsen, 66 (Harvard, '21), was TIME'S first circulation manager, Time Inc.'s longtime president (1939-60), and is now chairman of the executive committee. Funds for the building, which cost $1.9 million, come from the Federal Government, various foundations, and 100 private donors, most of them friends and admirers of Larsen...