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...Viacheslav Molotov waved a grey fedora and smiled when he stepped from a U.S. Army plane at Washington's airport this week. Greeted by Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Mr. Molotov kept on smiling and stared at a point midway between the Secretary of State's chin and navel. Posing later with Stettinius, Anthony Eden, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Ambassadors Harriman and Gromyko, the Foreign Commissar stared at nothing in particular (see cut}. Mr. Molotov's companions regarded this as encouraging...
...last week's Lancet, Captain Wilson explained her amazing survival: on opening the wound - it ran from her left side a little above the waist to a spot near her navel - he found that the shilling-sized hole nicked out of her intestine had be come fixed against the corresponding hole in her abdominal wall, so that no contaminating material could touch the vulnerable abdominal lining. Such material trickled out through the wound, where it could do comparatively little harm. Wrote the Captain admiringly: "In her successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated...
Partisans of Adam & Eve navels include no known Communists (as professional atheists, Communists do not believe in Adam & Eve), do include such great Renaissance religious painters as Tintoretto, Masaccio, Titian, Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted a navel on his recumbent figure of Adam in the Pope's Sistine Chapel, died (1564) without ever having heard of Karl Marx, Stalin or Earl Browder...
...Some sharp object had ripped through an aviator from the spine nearly to the navel. He was near death when he arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later. In two hours, surgeons gave him twelve units of plasma and ten pints of blood. Two months later the captain saw him in a West Coast hospital and he "looked pretty good...
Katherine Dunham, Negro ballerina, drew attention to the fact that in her Tropical Revue she wears a pearl in her navel instead of a diamond-because Gypsy Rose Lee had copied the diamond...