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...Rogers got a chance to draw on his improvised bone bank when he was called in to treat two little girls, Martha Arellano, 7, and Lily Mendoza, 6, who have tuberculosis of the spine. Dr. Rogers used sections of bone from Olivia Holguin's legs to strengthen the little girls' vertebrae. Walking well on her new legs (she used neither crutches nor cane), Olivia Holguin went to Southwestern General Hospital to pay a visit to the children she had helped to mend. Last week, both youngsters went home...
Best conjecture as to what happened then: Surgeon Price Thomas made a cut beginning about two inches left of the spine, baring the ribs, and an assistant surgeon held the wound open with retractors while the "sterile nurse" (socalled because she wears sterile gloves to handle sterile instruments) handed Price Thomas a cutter something like a pair of rose pruners. With these he snipped a rib. Then he worked around, cut the same rib near the breastbone and removed it, taking care to leave part of the rib sheath intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs...
...grounds of a Zurich clinic, photographers got a picture they had given up hope of getting: a shot of Sir Stafford Cripps, looking older and ravaged by pain, but on his feet again. His response to treatment for a tubercular spine condition also amazed his doctors, who predicted that he would be able to leave for his home in England within a month...
...Good Lord," breathed Lawrence, as he slid back to his chair and scribbled in his notebook. For a few spine-tingling seconds, the 154 reporters could see the big black headline: TRUMAN BACKS IKE FOR PRESIDENT. Then NBC's Frank Bourgholtzer spoke up in disbelief: "Does that mean that if Ike wants to be President, you will help...
...Autenticos for 20 minutes; Chibás himself made only a short speech. He ended with: "People of Cuba, awake!" Then he fumbled under the coat of his natty, double-breasted white suit, grasped his .38-cal. revolver, squeezed the trigger. The bullet ripped into his belly, shattering his spine...