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...bathtub rim and faucets. Since the evidence against Lamson was purely circumstantial this point loomed important as the basis for "reasonable doubt." Desperately the prosecution sought to combat it. It called Dr. Arthur William Meyer, head of the Stanford anatomy department, who testified that Mrs. Lamson's scalp indicated that she had been seized and yanked forward. Pathologist Proescher claimed he had conducted a personal experiment to disprove the accident theory. He had undressed, got into the Lamson bathtub, deliberately permitted himself to slip and hit his head against the bathtub rim and faucets. "I was not even hurt...
...ashore. One night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...case of Charles Berton was more complicated than that. Father Berton, although a firm Christian Scientist, said he had walked three miles for a doctor who treated his son for lacerations of the scalp. The doctor, said Father Berton, had offered little hope: the son was "physically dead but mentally alive." Ten Acres Sanitarium was chartered only to receive patients with mild disorders. Acute cases were not to be admitted. Yet two doctors were supposed to be on call. Authorities said that a doctor was called only after Charles Berton died. The Sanitarium's license was suspended pending investigation...
...scars do develop, volunteered Dr. Howard Leighton Updegraff of Hollywood, plastic surgeons can do what they are doing for Doris Johnson's hand. For head disfigurements it is now possible to remake eyebrows and lashes with snips of scalp. linings of the eyelids with mucous membrane from the mouth, and to remodel noses, lips and ears with skin grafts. Burned faces, said Dr. Updegraff, are more common now than in Wartime...
...demolished his own, escaped serious injury. Hospitalized were his two companions of last summer's cosmic ray junket to the Andes (TIME, March 28): his wife, with cuts about the body and head, a nail through her left hand, and their son Arthur Alan, with a lacerated scalp...