Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad-shouldered bullyboy who, in the words of West German Prosecutor Helmut Paulik, perpetrated "probably the most hideous group of sadistic atrocities unearthed since the war." In the camp where Use Koch, wife of the camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi overlords were shocked. After an SS investigation they packed him off to the front "to redeem himself," and there he lost a leg and an arm. After first declaring him unfit...
...growth will come in aerosol drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have begun to market heart medicine in aerosol cans. In case of an angina attack, the patient puts the aerosol tube in his mouth, gets the proper dosage with a single press of a button. Also starting to come out: cortisone skin medicines, burn ointments and antiseptics in aerosol cans...
Billows & Pillows. In his portrait, Author Warner tells a great many of the old Nelson stories, and some unfamiliar ones. Example: as a midshipman at 14, Nelson found himself on an expedition to the Arctic. He tried to kill a polar bear to get its skin for his father. He missed the beast with his first shot and wanted to clobber it with a clubbed musket...
Triple Plays. Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Kelly Jr. took over. To get skin back onto Kilpatrick's right foot, he had to use pedicle grafts (TIME, April 8, 1957), with the skin flap left attached to its original site to maintain blood flow until it "took" at the new site. Obvious sources would have been Kilpatrick's left leg-the part that had had to be amputated. So Dr. Kelly had to try a triple play-from right thigh to left stump, later from there to the right foot. This kept Kilpatrick in a grotesquely distorted and uncomfortable position...
...Hollywood mistreatment of a capable war novel by Joe David Brown (TIME, April 9, 1956), is one of those embarrassing pictures that say all the right things but obviously do not understand what they mean. It says that war is hell, that love is holy, that color is only skin-deep, that insincerity is the root of all evil. But it says all these things as a parrot requests a cracker, by rote and without conviction ; and instead of conviction, the picture offers a tediously sentimental farewell to arms and a rather painful exhibition of the sort of placebo liberalism...