Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deborah Marie and Christine Mary Andrews, 8 months, Chicago twins who were born joined at the head but can now face each other, did so happily for photographers. Both have a normal brain covering (dura mater) except for one small patch, which Christine will soon get; neither has a bony top to her skull, but they will get these at the age of four from their own ribs or hipbones...
...nightclub floor stands a lithe, confident little man with a pugnaciously protruding lower lip, a broken nose and a patch over his left eye. But blasting out of the loudspeakers at the delighted audiences come the vocal inflections of Frank Sinatra (applause), Billy Eckstine (applause), Tony Bennett (laughter), Arthur Godfrey (laughter), Bing Crosby (cheers). After the impersonations, the entertainer sings some straight songs-in a voice not so good as some of those he mimicked, but clear and sure. Then he may play the drums with the abandon of a voodoo priest...
...Start. The big turning point for Sammy Davis Jr. came after an accident six months ago that could have floored him for good: an automobile crackup in which he lost his left eye. When he turned up at Giro's soon afterwards, undaunted, and joking about his eye patch ("Gotta go now, gotta do a Hathaway shirt ad"). Sammy's comfortable popularity suddenly changed into a major fad. He was hailed by every Hollywood star from Ava to Zsa Zsa. The great ones came to weep and cheer. Less enthusiastic customers got at least one impression that...
...kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where the staph had not been overgrown or crowded out but had nevertheless been killed. He deduced that the mold secreted a substance that killed this breed of staphylococci, at least...
Cincinnatians read him with affectionate respect, and when he points out a flaw in the city, they hurry to patch it up. When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...