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...novels. Ordinarily, he may be no more likely to buy the hard-cover editions of these works than he would be to go shopping for a pack of otter hounds or a brocade waistcoat. But if he reads this volume, undeterred by the crepitation of bursting glue from the spine, he will have exposed himself to more first-class writing than can be found on the entire 1954 fiction list of U.S. and British publishers...
...bulk of the novel describes his trials. Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and snow, up hill and through bog, that Frodo seems at times like a mythical postman. His enemies, however, send shivers rippling along the spine: toeless, green-scaled Ores, fire-breathing Balrogs, Barrow-wights who put their prey in a catatonic trance, and the Ringwraiths, nine black-shrouded riders on nine black horses. Frodo and friends best them all, but in the modern manner, more by muddling through than by measuring up to their challenges. Obscure...
...vitamins in an attempt to nurse him back to health. There, one of the nurses, Grace Kim, who had already adopted a war-orphaned Korean girl, decided to adopt Ronnie. But despite his care, Ronnie developed alarming symptoms. An orthopedic surgeon made the diagnosis: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. A delicate bone graft was necessary. Nurse Kim made her decision: the doctors could take bone grafts from her own leg to reinforce Ronnie's diseased vertebrae...
Massachusetts' Democratic Junior Senator John F. Kennedy was "very comfortable" in Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery after a successful operation on his spine, injured when his PT boat was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer during World...
Relatively new as an excuse for international competition, parachute jumping is too full of spine-jerking thrills ever to become a popular pastime. But the careful jumpers in Burgundy last week seemed set on proving that a dive into empty air need be no more dangerous than a snappy game of table tennis...