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...finding: a grim postscript from the Swedish Royal Medical Board. Contrary to earlier belief, the Secretary-General did not die instantly when he was thrown clear of the burning plane, but lay struggling for air in the bush until he suffocated because of injuries to his lungs, chest and spine...
...despite intelligence, energy and irrepressible good nature, he made a poor adjustment to civilian life. Without a veteran's pension of $96 a year, he would have starved. Martin was 70 when he wrote his memoirs, but the little volume, bound between two boards with a calf-leather spine, won its author no fame. The current printing, the first in 132 years, is ably annotated by Scholar and Editor George F. Scheer and should correct history's lapse...
Those dauntless darlings of diamond, the Boston Red Sox, will open their 1962 campaign against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park this afternoon. About 15,000 are expected to be in the stands when the umpire calls "Play ball" and the spine-tingling crack of horsehide against tempered ash signals the start of another season. Actually, the Bronx Barons, the New York Yankees, are probably going to win again, but it will be fun deluding ourselves for awhile...
Poem to the Book Review at TIME: You will keep hiring picadors from the back row and pic the bull back far back along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors NORMAN MAILER New York City
...spaces in the wool allow the skin to dry, and ease the pressure on the spine," says Dr. Gaenslen. "I order a sheepskin for a patient the same as I'd order aspirin." A Buffalo surgeon uses deerskins, finds that they work well, and has no difficulty getting hunters in the neighborhood to donate them-a radio appeal once brought in hundreds. Two of the idea's biggest boosters are El Paso's Dr. Louis W. Breck and Dr. Saul Gonzalez, who have used sheepskins for thousands of patients. They have seen virtually no bed ulcers...