Word: ribs
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...Guerre. From France, Staff Sergeant Paul Lobel notified his family in Middleboro, Mass., that a French girl tried to kiss him, pulled him from a jeep, broke his rib...
Martha Gellhorn, 36, gilt-haired, restless novelist-correspondent (for Collier's), wife of Collier's War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway, driving between Toulouse and Paris, lost control of her car after a blowout, dived over a 16-ft. embankment, cracked a rib...
...circles were abuzz with an acid anecdote last week. A Peruvian surgeon and a Venezuelan architect (so the story ran) were dining with two men from the U.S. State Department. They discussed whose profession was the oldest. "Mine," said the surgeon, "God created Eve out of Adam's rib . . . by a surgical operation." "Mine," said the architect, "God first created the world out of chaos . . . the work of an architect." The two State Department men kept mum. "And what do you say?" the Latin Americans finally asked. Said one of the State Department men: "We were wondering who created...
...dark brown substance, almost as hard as a rib, which slowly softens when planted in the body. Uses have not yet been found for it, but Dr. Cohn is convinced that everything in human blood is useful...
...Northwestern, Coach Lynn Waldorf threw away his book of intricate spinners and reverses, adopted a set of simple plays, figured he had practically the entire Big Ten to worry about - then his quarter back, ex-Marine Jack Doyle, choked on a French fried potato and cracked an injured rib...