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Wooldridge enlisted in 1940, waded ashore with the 1st infantry at Normandy and fought his way across Europe, bringing back two Silver Stars and a prominent scar on his nose to show for sundry duels with German tanks. He was among the first batch of sergeants major appointed when the rank was created by the Army...
Most U.S. oral surgeons have operated from outside the mouth, through the neck, usually cutting through the jaw bone to shorten or lengthen jaws. The procedure is likely to leave a scar and carries the risk of damaging a nerve, thus causing facial paralysis, and it does not permit the free repositioning of parts of the jaw. Only occasionally have U.S. surgeons operated entirely inside the mouth to move the jaw, something Dr. Obwegeser has made a standard practice. His techniques for moving and repositioning entire segments of bone, with teeth affixed, speedily correct severe defects U.S. surgeons have despaired...
...privacy, of course, but few really practice it. More and more people operate in the spirit of the jet-set character who gives each new wife a press agent for a wedding present. But then, how can privacy be prized when the President of the U.S. bares his surgical scar on television for all the world...
...ordered them to the rear was about 5'10," stocky, about 180 lbs. He had a swarthy complexion with a dark scar on his face. His hair was long, black, greasy, and combed straight back. He wore a tan, zipper poplin jacket...
...lucky enough to get a room above the seventh floor. But you can't look out the window all day, and when you're not looking out the window you look at the three remaining walls in your cinder-block cubicle. More than one year in the Towers could scar a man for life and make a raving idiot of a claustrophobe...