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...Whipping down a practice bobsled run, Belgium's Charles de Sorger wound up with a broken arm and an injured spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ill-Omened Olympics | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...jackets are built with a doweled spine wide enough to carry lettering. In addition, records are "factory-sealed" for protection against being played by record-shop disk jockeys. They sell for $4.98, and sell as well or better than the same records in unadorned envelopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Angel at Two | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...actual clanging manhole cover. Life may end as a pickled monstrosity in a jar of alcohol; with Bradbury, in The Jar, that end is only a beginning. There are 19 stories in this book, but the best of the lot is more rib-tickling than spine-tingling. The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse tells of a fellow called George Garvey, so indescribably dull and ordinary that he becomes the pet of an avant-garde group, as a symbol, apparently, of what is wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Djinn & Bitters | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Many heart men are returning to the field of their earliest successes-surgery. To check hypertension in some cases of nervous origin there is a formidable two-stage operation, sympathectomy: whole series of nerve bundles beside the spine are cut. Increasingly daring surgery is also coming to the aid of atherosclerosis victims. Surgeons in many cities can now cut out a diseased, bottleneck section of the aorta and use a graft from a frozen artery bank as a splint while the patient's own aorta heals. For similar roadblocks in the femoral (thigh) arteries, the surgeon may slit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Specialized Nubbin | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...with stage fright that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills that Sullivan has about given up protesting that he has always been sound of wind and limb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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