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Five years ago Dr. Clarence W. Dail, at Los Angeles' Rancho Los Amfgos Hospital, noticed that one of his polio patients, a young man whose breathing muscles were almost completely paralyzed, had unconsciously developed a substitute way of breathing. He and Dr. John Affeldt, the physician in charge of the polio respirator center, believed that other patients might be taught to do the same, and began to experiment. Last week the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced that their new method will be taught to partially paralyzed patients at all of its centers. Its name: glossopharyngeal, or "frog," breathing...
...Rancho Dobe's Storm is a sleek, husky (92 Ibs.) Doberman pinscher who leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required...
This week a sleek, three-year-old descendant of "Dobermann's dogs," Mr. & Mrs. Len Carey's Doberman pinscher, Ch. Rancho Dobe's Storm (see cut opposite), defends the best-in-show title which he won last year in the annual Westminster Kennel Club competition at Madison Square Garden. The judge who last year picked Storm over the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest, called him "the greatest Doberman I've ever seen...
...match. He flared back: "Americans have more guts in their little fingers than the rest of the world put together!" To make good his boast, Brooklyn-born Sidney Franklin had to learn enough about bullfight technique to get through a face-saving appearance with yearling bulls at a rancho in the country. That was back in 1922, and with time off for wars, revolutions and surgical operations, Franklin, the only American ever to become a topflight matador, has been in or around bull rings ever since...
Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...