Word: scars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolf (Warner Bros.) spills more gore than Hollywood has seen in many a month. Its press agents claim that it is the only picture ever filmed in which every member of the cast has at least one fight. Before its 47 brawls were completed, they say, Chief Scar-Maker Carl Axzelle had to send out for extra help. By the time the film is finished, only two characters are still alive...
Earl Carlson was born in Minneapolis during the blizzard of 1897. He was injured by forceps, and still bears a scar on his forehead. He had to crawl on all fours till he was five, but was robust and mischievous. One day, to his mother's amazement, little Earl's flailing arms stole some apples from a fruit stand. "It was the first time that my hand had ever done my bidding," he said. "My stolen apples gave me the clue, not followed up for years, that the secret of control for the muscularly handicapped lies in concentration...
...Bohemian doctor brought one of his countrymen to Dr. Carlson's laboratory. Fred Vlcek, now known to medical school freshmen as "Mr. V.," was a barber who as a child had accidentally swallowed strong caustic soda solution. The soda burned his esophagus, and the scar tissue which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit...
...faced Zivic again, in a do-or-die attempt to win back the welterweight title. Armstrong had just received the Neil Memorial Trophy, annually awarded to the most praiseworthy fighter of the year. He will take Zivic this time, fight fans figured, now that surgeons have removed the bothersome scar tissue from around his eyes. But before the first round was over, the crowd realized how wrong they were. Instead of his customary windmill attack, Armstrong tried to box, scarcely landed a blow. In awesome silence they watched round after round. The tiny dynamo, after ten years of punching...
...work of the principality of Lichtenburg during the days of Bismarck and Louis Napoleon. Like California's Zorro, he acts the fop in public, climbs into a black hood in private, lashes out at intrigue with his lethal, hardworking sword. Because nothing, including the eventual death of scheming, scar-faced Gurko Lanen (George Sanders), comes as a surprise, a certain necessary element of suspense is missing from these adventures...