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...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, to his father's Palm Beach home-where, to cure black moods of depression, he began writing...
...Lanchester; Hifirecords LP). A fey, offbeat collection of songs both sprightly and shivery by the apricot-haired English comedienne, with tongue-in-jowl introductions by husband Charles Laughton. The selections range from Fiji Fanny, a raucous burlesque of the songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...
...shovel rasping futilely at the earth. Other memorable See It Now moments for eye and ear: a Buchenwald tattoo on the arm of an Israeli jet pilot; a "rehabilitated" Mau Mau warrior singing Onward, Christian Soldiers; the ding of a bullet taken out of a G.I.'s spine as it was tossed by the surgeon to a nurse and dropped into a cup in her hand...
...continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with a happy ending...
Joseph de Borse-Day, 49, was a chef at The Bell in the fall of 1955 when he suddenly began losing weight-14 Ibs. in one week, followed by a serious hemorrhage. Surgeons removed a cancer-ridden right lung and several cancerous glands along his spine. De Borse's remaining lung developed bronchopleural fistulas, and the hospital staff rated his chance of recovery at just about zero...