Word: scar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months ago, Dr. Ersner drilled through the bony obstructions and put a rubber tube through both nostrils so that scar tissue would not close them again. Even with this partial relief, her food tasted so much better that Andrea began to eat like a wolf and gained nine pounds. Last week Dr. Ersner took the tube out, and Andrea went on a smelling binge, running from food smells to her mother's perfume bottles...
GAMBLER FRANK COSTELLO has nothing worse than chronic laryngitis now, his doctor testified last week, but in 1933 it was cancer of the vocal cords. Manhattan Specialist Douglas Quick said that 28 X-ray treatments in a three-month period licked the cancer, but left Costello with considerable scar tissue. The scar tissue was just one of the reasons for Costello's laryngitis, the doctor believed. The other: too many cigarettes...
...France, stately and beautiful, came up New York Bay, one of her prominent passengers,* a five-star general of France with a faint battle scar on his left cheek, had a particular wish. The general wanted a picture of himself with the Statue of Liberty as backdrop. The massed press photographers were glad to oblige. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, impeccable from kepi to pigskin gloves, turned his hawklike profile to the lenses and pointed theatrically toward his country's copper gift...
...washed the dirt, bone splinters and hair from the missile track in his brain, and sewed him up again. The splinter itself, about five milimeters square, was left untouched; to remove it would have meant damaging unharmed tissue, and experience has shown that it will soon be covered with scar tissue and cause no trouble. At week's end, the private was completely lucid and feeling fine...
...Backed by four unidentified eastern businessmen, the foundation paid $1,100,000 in cash for a down payment, will pay the balance in ten to 15 years. The foundation is privately financed by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, 52, a gregarious plastic surgeon whose avocations have included play writing (The Unseen Scar) and an interest in black & white TV converters. Maltz says he set up the foundation to do medical research six years ago in memory of his mother who died of cancer...