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Last week Correspondent Weissblatt, swathed in a plaster cast from trunk to toes, received the Purple Heart. A Manhattan surgeon had removed the bullet from his thigh, sawed through the crookedly knit bone and patched it with a six-inch stainless steel plate and eight screws. Now both legs are the same length. Soon Weissblatt will walk again without crutches...
Cheated of a formal inquisition and execution, Himmler's captors let his body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum, determined not to look like an arsenal of antiquities, last week went way back to ancient Greece for a sprucing-up act. Visitors who associate Greek art with dusty plaster and dreary drapes of frozen chitons will have their eyes opened: the Met's dolled-up Greek Art collection has a fresh-as-a-daisy look...
Treatment of a spinal patient begins with absolute rest for the back, usually in a plaster cast. Because the paralyzed legs are completely numb, patients commonly develop bed sores. The Newton D. Baker Hospital developed a quick cure: skin grafts. No less troublesome is the problem of getting patients to eat; the spinal injury destroys their appetite. The hospital spurs them on by serving especially tasty and attractive food...
...horse to win the Kentucky Derby, it would be the greatest parlay in history." Also be-Oscared: Ethel Barrymore, best supporting actress (None but the Lonely Heart); Margaret O'Brien, best child actress. Wartime note: Oscars, instead of the usual gold plate, were made of lacquered plaster...