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More Mad Than Anything. The last time Surgeon Lawler checked on the transplanted kidney was April 1, when he performed a follow-up operation to widen the ureter where it was being narrowed by scar tissue. He told Mrs. Tucker then that he was well satisfied with it, hoped that it would work so well that her own remaining kidney, which is also diseased, could be removed later. Back from Europe, where he heard about three human kidney transplants, made since his operation, Surgeon Lawler was keeping his mouth shut last week. He was expecting to publish his own report...
...campaign, and the duller competitors fled the field. Inspired by the speech given by Sally Rand in a pre-war Smoker battle, titled "What the Stage Door Johnny is Looking for When He Stage-Door-Johnnies a Burlesque Stage Door," two candidates brought strippers Sally Keith and Scar- lett Kelly from the Old Howard to talk to the freshmen...
...Stand up," said the doctor. "Raise your arms over your head-then straight out-now bend down. Stand up again." He pointed to me. "Appendicitis scar fully hardened." The private pencilled more checks on my sheet. The doctor started to say something else, then the boy behind me hit the floor...
...Knees. In two awful hours of rasping vituperation at Lake Success, Mao's proxy, an unknown general named Wu Hsiu-chuan, had torn away all (or almost all) of the free world's illusions about Mao and Chinese Communism. The Mao presented there by his scar-faced servant Wu was none of the men painted by the soft China hands of American "liberalism...
...come to scoff at the beggar's claims, but when she saw his prominent front teeth, the triangular vaccination on his arm and the pigeon-shaped mole of Louis Bourbon on Naundorff's thigh, she became convinced that he was the Dauphin. Naundorff even had a scar on his upper lip like that which the imprisoned Dauphin had got from the bite of an angry rabbit; the Dauphin had screamed the era's worst insult, "aristocrate," at the bunny...