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Despite 2 broken wrists that he incurred in a mix-up under the basket in scrimmage two weeks ago, Mike Keene, center and captain of the '45 basketball team, has showed up for practice with his wrist solidly ensconced in a plaster cast...
...late John Philip Sousa did it with bombs and giant firecrackers. His predecessor, redoubtable Bandmaster Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, cracked plaster from the ceiling of many a U.S. auditorium with a battery of real cannon manned by a squad of U.S. artillerymen. In Madison Square Garden, six years ago, Conductor Erno Rapee added a squad of infantry and a ten-gauge cannon to his WPA orchestra of 210 men, made enough noise to rock midtown Manhattan...
...Beat Yale" sings in the Crimson locker room began to mark an increasingly tense attitude--the usual keynote of Yale week, and a big plaster bulldog sat ominously over the door, a constant reminder that the Crimson's fall classic is just four days away...
...Stader reduction splint" was devised in 1931 by Veterinary Otto Stader (of Ardmore, Pa.) because his canine patients gnawed plaster casts off their legs. When Drs. Kenneth Lewis and Lester Breidenbach of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital saw a Stader splint on a dog, they were impressed at once with the fact that it drew the broken bones back into their normal position and served as a convenient splint while they grew together again...
...allows the patient to walk gently on his broken leg in about two weeks; to put his whole weight on it, without cane or crutch, in three weeks. > Thus it prevents the muscular atrophy and stiffening of the joints which commonly result from a plaster cast...