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...three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself in the head is not the quickest or surest suicide method. Shooters often live for hours or days after hitting themselves. It is very difficult to shoot oneself in the heart (the bullet usually ricochets off the breastbone or a rib). Oddly, suicides never seem to shoot themselves through their clothes, seem always to bare the skin. Suicide by stabbing, Dr. Snyder has found, is rare...
...platoon sergeant he led men across the blood-dyed Rapido River three times, and three times had to pull back before overwhelming enemy strength. In combat reports Kelly is officially credited with killing at least 40 Germans. Admiring fellow infantrymen rib him as "Commando" Kelly, or "The One-Man Army...
Danny Kaye, an elevator boy in a medical center, is also a one-man museum of imaginary maladies. He is wooed by redheaded Nurse Dinah Shore, whom he does not love, woos blond Nurse Constance Dowling, who loves his roommate. He does an uproarious rib of a Western musical, taking all parts, including that of the usher who keeps saying: "There will be a short wait for seats." Then Danny is drafted. En route to the South Pacific he sings the rapid-fire Melody in 4-F with the cold frenzy which only Danny Kaye can give it. Later...
...does not act on the big nerve centers. It acts by breaking the connection between the nerve ends and the muscles they serve. First muscles affected are those of the head and neck; then the limbs are paralyzed, then the abdominal muscles, last of all the diaphragm and between-rib muscles which do the work of breathing. (The danger of the drug is that just a little more than enough to relax the abdominal muscles may paralyze breathing-therefore only expert anesthetists should use it.) Besides relaxing skeletal muscles, curare contracts the gut, making it easy to handle and replace...
...gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond (but pretty hairy), heavy-set with rather feminine flesh distribution, square-jawed with square teeth. He is likely to have a wide rib-breastbone angle, full lips...