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Progress was creeping up on Long Island's famed old Deepdale Golf Club. The ranch homes of well-heeled suburbia were already encamped on its borders; soon its green and rolling acres would be split by the broad scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
...dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
...Accepted Fact. Japanese plastic surgeons did their best: at Tokyo University Hospital, Shigeko had 20 operations, regained some movement in her neck and fingers. But the scar tissue kept coming back. Then U.S. Editor (The Saturday Review) Norman Cousins heard of the "Keloid Girls," began a campaign to get them another chance. The Hiroshima Peace Center Associates, a private philanthropic group, agreed to sponsor 25 of the most badly scarred Hiroshima Maidens on a trip to the U.S. for surgical treatment; the New York Quakers offered to find them homes. In charge (without fee) of the long, arduous program...
...method. "Most men," he said drily, "have ... a head, two arms, a nose, a mouth." But only the weaver has a weaver's tooth (jagged from biting threads), only a peasant woman smoking a short-stemmed clay pipe has "the ulcer on her lower lip and the glossy scar on her left cheek indicating a superficial burn." Dr. Bell himself was delighted with Doyle's great detective, and liked to brag: "I am Sherlock Holmes...
...week of healing. The dead muscle tissue in President Eisenhower's heart had been carried away in the blood stream by "scavenger" cells, and new building cells were coming in to set up the fibrous tissue that would be a scar on the front wall of his heart...