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...Cove, N.Y. when his rented 1957 Chevrolet sedan went off the road and crashed into a telephone pole. Campy was bent into a pretzel within the overturned car. His bull neck probably saved him from death, but the impact fractured the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae and compressed the spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body. But his doctors were cautiously refusing to predict when Campanella would walk...
...long, glistening black hair. Her entire torso and part of one thigh, her shaved head and her neck were encased in a monstrous plaster cast known among doctors and nurses as a "turtle." The cast was hinged in the middle. Joining the halves on the left, and spanning the spinal curvature, was a turnbuckle. Every day or two the doctors extended the turnbuckle by a couple of turns. As it was lengthened, it flattened and almost erased the curve. But unaided, the spine would not be able to maintain its restored straightness...
Jackie Kennedy almost lost a husband in the first years after the marriage. Jack's wartime injury had required a spinal operation, but the bones were not set properly. In 1954 his back began giving trouble, and by fall he was hobbling about on crutches. In October he entered Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, where a metal plate was set into his spine. Twice in three months, his condition was so grave that his family was called to his bedside. Just before Christmas, he had recovered to the extent of flying, supine on a stretcher...
Died. Jack Buchanan, sixtyish, versatile British song-and-danceman, TV performer and London theater owner; of spinal arthritis; in London. Scottish-born Buchanan once taught Laurence Olivier how to twirl a cane and twinkle his feet, was a leading comic at 19, made his first of many Broadway appearances in Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924 (with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence...
...Takes guts to write the stuff he does," said Barnes. "I think a straight line can be drawn right down the spinal cord of literary history. From Thomas Hardy to D. H. Lawrence to Henry Miller. Same thing's happened to all of them--ridicule, persecution. Fifty years from now he'll be revered. Miller, I mean...