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There were no serious casualties one day in mid-1954, so 34-year-old Captain David Ralph Millard Jr., assigned to a 1st Marine Division medical unit in South Korea, had time at day's end to ponder one aspect of his chosen specialty: plastic surgery. Among the Korean youngsters around the base were many with cleft lips. Dr. Millard set a series of photographs of them on an easel, and while studying them he dozed off. He awoke with a start, looked at them from a new direction, and then the inspiration came: what he (and generations...
Many cleft lips show the defect only on one side, some are in the middle, and some affect both sides. Millard wanted to work first on a simple, unilateral case. As a boy in North Carolina, he had been a rodeo fan and had learned to twirl a lariat. So during some friendly horseplay, he literally lassoed a ten-year-old Korean boy and lollipopped him into the medical hut. (His parents could not be reached for approval.) When the stitches were removed, the result was so good that the boy became a walking, talking testimonial to Millard...
Harelip Repairs. Soon Millard was operating on cleft-lip youngsters from all over Korea, often in freezing temperatures, with no electric power and an assistant holding a flashlight. The Millard simplified technique produced a more natural appearance than others previously used for unilateral cleft lip; it was so successful that after Millard reported his results, it was widely adopted and now accounts for a major proportion of all one-side harelip repairs...
...Millard's experience with the unilateral deformity has been so deep and extensive that he has compiled it in a large volume: Cleft Craft (Little, Brown), which weighs 7 Ibs. and lists at $85. Even with that fiscal bite, Millard expects to lose money: his 10% royalty will not cover the original costs of research and illustration. Volume II, on bilateral and rare cleft-lip deformities, is already at the publisher's. Millard is also at work on alveolar and palatal deformities for Volume...
After long pretrial hearings, an eight-month trial involving millions of dollars in legal fees and nearly 20,000 pages of transcripts, followed by 14 months of deliberation, New York Surrogate Millard Midonick handed down a crushing verdict. The executors, he found, had acted with "improvidence and waste verging upon gross negligence." They had sold 100 Rothkos to Marlborough for an "unconscionably low" $1.8 million. They had also allowed Marlborough an inflated commission of 40% to 50% on consignment sales of the other 698 paintings...