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...have certain theories we go by. After that there is the Jesus factor - the unpredictable." Each new objective has its peculiar problem. The Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless...
...morphine and atropine to ease his pain and keep him quiet. In a few minutes he was so restless that his arms and legs had to be strapped to the stretcher. X-rays showed that he had only a compression fracture of one vertebra in the middle of his spine...
...Mackenzie, who reported the case in the British Medical Journal, believe that the paratrooper survived because he landed on one foot and fell sideways-the landing technique which U.S. experts now warn against. Nevertheless, this prevented the full force of his landing from being transmitted through his legs and spine to the base of his skull...
...taut-nerved, physically unstable young woman who lived on work had nothing to do. There were tests for various pictures. Nothing came of them. Miss Garson sank into that terrifying limbo, known to many Hollywood newcomers, of the regularly paid, politely Forgotten Woman. Years before, she had injured her spine. It began to hurt her again. She wore one thick and one thin-soled shoe, hobbled like a crone, went outdoors only at night. For months, she says, "My only screen tests were X rays; my best parts, the spine." Doctors advised an "intricate operation...
...asked for every test M.G.M. had ever made, and for the first time became aware of Greer Garson. She was it. They would go to London at once for the shooting. Greer took the part chiefly in order to get away from Hollywood and back to England. Her spine has not troubled her since...