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...spindly child who wore an awkward, hip-high brace for six years to correct a curvature of the spine. But he was precocious and inquisitive, and when he arrived at the Browning School in New York at the age of nine, he was two years ahead of his class. At Harvard, where he was a shy and awkward youth, he concentrated on fine arts, was a second-string tennist and president of the literary Signet Club. He graduated with honors...
...four days and four nights, it had rained in Kyushu. A swirling, kingdom-come downpour streamed down the mountain spine to the narrow coastal plain, spilling out the tiny rivers into a torrent of yellow foam; it took the huts and the houses, the roads and the railroads, the bridges and the viaducts; it brought down landslides to crush the upland villages. Countless thousands were marooned on islands of high ground, perched in quivering treetops, watching and fearful as the mud-churning waters flowed past. Rubbing her prayer beads, an old lady said: "I have lived a long time...
...from the heart to the abdomi nal organs and the legs. The aneurysm, formed where the artery's walls had been weakened by disease, was so big (8 in. across) that it was pushing organs out of place and was wearing away part of the sheriff's spine...
...Margaret and Mary Gibb, 41-year-old twins joined at the base of the spine, both had to be anesthetized at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital for famed Surgeon Frank Lahey to remove a fibrous tumor from Margaret's abdomen. After the two-hour operation, both sisters were reported doing fine...
...Three years ago No. 10 Rillington Place became known as "The Murder House." Beryl Evans and her 14-month-old daughter were cruelly strangled there; her husband, Tim Evans, went to the gallows for the crime. Last week, with a decisiveness that sent shivers of fascinated horror down the spine of London, No. 10 Rillington Place renewed its lease on notoriety...