Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first U.S. skin bank was operating last week in a jail. Charles ("Reds") McCullough, 20, who is serving 20 to 40 years in Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary for highway robbery, gave two big strips of leg skin to a little boy with bad burns around his knees. Daniel Dona hue (see cut), who last month gave skin for the second time to nine-year-old Evelyn Henderson, is serving life for murder...
...activity is that U.S. citizens, returning from far-off fronts, may bring home a host of new, dangerous or repulsive diseases. Among the less familiar ones: African sleeping sickness, relapsing fever (a periodic fever transmitted by bedbugs), schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis (all three, parasitic infestations), yaws (a type of stubborn skin sore indigenous to the tropics). Says Dr. Faust: fortunately, most tropical epidemics are "not like flash floods, but like slowly mounting river stages from spring thaws, giving ample time for tightened safeguards." In Dr. Faust's opinion the three diseases that need most watching...
...waited for some 80 reporters to shuffle into a semicircle before his cluttered desk. The familiar signal flags of weariness were up-an air of fatigued abstraction, a dark web of crow's-feet about his eyes, a deep etching of lines in the loose, sand-grey skin of his face...
...Molotov is better known as Paulina Zhemchuzhina (zhemchug means pearl). She is a slim, handsome woman, with a clear olive skin and discreet makeup. Moscow's prewar foreign community knew her as a charming and lavish hostess, a lover of French literature, a well-dressed woman...
Surgeons now depend on 1) thin grafts which can be done in one operation; 2) a skin flap from near by; 3) a tubed pedicle (when some thickness is needed) which requires three operations about three weeks apart...