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Iced Ribs. In remodeling the nose and ears of an auto-accident victim, a plastic surgeon usually has to snip off patches of cartilage from the patient's ribs. Such mutilation is unnecessary, said Dr. Claire LeRoy Straith of Detroit, for cartilage leftovers from, surgical operations and even ribs removed at autopsy can be used in plastic surgery. Since cartilage is nourished by lymph instead of blood it does not undergo extensive or rapid degeneration. And it does not need to be ''matched'' to individuals. Spare ribs should be stored on ice, said Dr. Straith...
...Ruddock can poke them around by means of a slender telescope inserted through the hollow needle. He can inspect them by the aid of electric lights placed at the tip of the telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound with an electric current. After inspection, Dr. Ruddock closes the hole in the abdomen with a single stitch. Others simply use adhesive tape...
...Donahue, the former Andoverian who has terrorized Exeter timber-toppers for years, ought to snip the 15.4 high hurdles mark. He has been consistently topping 11 feet in the pole vault. Oldfather and Nichols are the cream of Jaakko's distance men. They romped through the last lap together at Andover to finish the mile in 4:39. Saturday, with Oldfather out, Nichols distanced the field to win in 4:38 at Exeter. Against Yale he will run the mile just to pick up points, leaving the blue-ribbon to Oldfather if he can get it. Nichols will...
...Snip, Snip. The terrible crises which have been frequent in the lesser European countries since the War have bred statesmen with tough nerves. On the day Austria was being invaded, out to an orchard went Austrian Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Seyss-Inquart, incipient Chancellor...
...Snip, snip, he pruned away at fruit trees for something like an hour and a half, then returned to Vienna refreshed about the time Chamberlain and Ribbentrop were "joining the ladies" in London. The German blood of this Nazi is a good deal colder than the blood of Hitler. In stolid fashion he waited around. After Schuschnigg's broadcast "good-by," Seyss-Inquart kept going on the air by electrical transcription every half-hour or so, asking Austrians not to resist the invading German Army, saying the troops of the Führer would bring "happiness...