Word: mike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, it looked like a fine game to six-year-old Mike Rector and his two playmates. Whooping it up as cowboys & Indians, the playmates tied Mike up in a nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...
...that was last November and Mike is still alive. He is one of the few victims of such extensive burns ever to pull through. Still in the hospital, he is now a thin, slight figure wrapped from neck to feet in bandages. His frail legs are bound to stiff splints to keep them from twisting. Pulling Mike through has been a long and complicated job. To prevent the formation of blisters and the deadly "white hemorrhage" (loss of body fluids and proteins through the raw, granulating flesh), Dr. Young covered Mike's burns with vaseline gauze, swathed...
...first skin grafts, three 4-in. by 8-in. squares volunteered by Mike's father, were sewn onto the flesh. Later, when sewing became impossible because of Mike's weakened condition Dr. Young stuck skin grafts on with thrombin, a clotting agent which served as a sort of human glue. Through the weeks there were over 100 plasma transfusions, eight skin graftings, endless vitamin and protein injections, billions of units of penicillin...
...other is bowman Mike Scully, who is becoming almost a tradition around Newell, this being his fourth year on the Varsity. Scully, incidentally, is the only oarsman who has been gaining weight in the last month. He has out on 12 pounds while his compatriots have been trimming down their winter insulation...
...Harvard ruggers opened their Bermuda sojourn by playing the Bermuda Athletic Association to a 3-3 tie. Al Green scored the Crimson's try on a penalty play and Sam Adams just missed registering another Harvard try. John Densmore, Crimson fullback, played an excellent game. Another back, Mike Peabody, suffered a broken shoulder. Eddin Davis blocked a strong BAA bid for a second...