Word: rib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brenda Carol and Beverley Lynn Townsend were born last November in the little hospital in the town of Tofield (pop. 800), Alberta, after a difficult, 2½-hour delivery. Dr. William Freebury had little hope for their survival when he saw that they were solidly joined (from the third rib to the navel), facing each other. A minister was called to baptize them when they were only ten minutes old. Their combined weight was 9¾ pounds...
...gallery at the Riviera, once known as Hogan's Alley, there was little more that needed to be said. Everybody remembered Ben's auto crash last February, how he lay for weeks after that in an El Paso hospital, his pelvis, collarbone, ankle and a rib broken. First it had been a question of whether Ben would live at all, then whether he would ever walk. But a couple of weeks ago, after a few practice rounds in Texas, 37-year-old Ben had made up his mind to come back. The gallery, schooled to remember that "they...