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As a researcher at Kansas State Agricultural College in the early '20s, Dr. Hisaw noticed a puzzling fact about the pocket gopher: the animal, for turning around in its narrow burrow, has a very narrow pelvis, and its compressed pubic bones come together in a bridge (called the symphysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: If a Gopher Can Do It ... | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

From the chest down, Ernie Defort, 12, of Winnipeg was two boys. Ever since he was born, Ernie had carried around a repulsive parasitic growth on his lower chest.* It consisted of two extra arms, an extra abdomen, an extra pelvis, two extra legs, an extra liver. Ernie used to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Double Boy | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

WAC's Relief. Sonny Tufts, 29, is 4-F's gift to Hollywood. He stands 6 ft. 4 in his socks, bears down on them with 200 Ib. of well-balanced beef and bone. But under all this somatic splendor is a broken man: two shattered shoulders, two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Eleven years ago Miner Tucker, was caught in a cave-in. He lay under tons of rock with both legs, all his toes and his pelvis broken, his skull fractured, his left arm mangled. In conscious moments he heard rescuers working to save him. He also asked God to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Coal Mine to Pulpit | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Judy Johnson can't remember the number of times she has been thrown-on polofields, in point-to-points and just schooling jumpers. Once a broken pelvis kept her in a hospital for ten weeks. Once she was unconscious for two and a half hours after a tumble.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jumping Judy | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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