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Obviously this is not the Mucky Spleen (Pogo's phrase for him) of old. The hero -not Mike Hammer but a creep named "Deep" for short and "Old Deep the Cannon Boy" for long-is splattering a man. Hammer seldom bothered with anything so tame; he ka-powed naked blondes in the stomach with his blue-glinting .45. Such parlor pleasantries accounted for the sale of 32 million paperback copies of Spillane's seven previous titles. The new boy, a hardrock who shows up to take over his neighborhood gang after 25 years of mysterious absence, will never...
Your story on Adolf Eichmann refers to Reinhardt Heydrich suffering a severed spine in the attack on him near Lidice. It was as Heydrich rode through Prague that a hand grenade was thrown into his open car and exploded behind him. His spleen was torn to pieces. In spite of almost immediate surgical intervention, he died several days later. I had to perform the autopsy and found the spine intact. As the whole incident occurred in Prague, the destruction of Lidice cannot be linked with the death of Heydrich in the way described in your statement...
...volunteers chosen in April 1959 from a list of no military test pilots, Shepard had been in rigorous discipline ever since. He took physical tests that most doctors have no need for. His blood was analyzed in a dozen different ways; the functioning of his various organs-heart, lungs, spleen, stomach, eyes, etc.-were tested over and over. He traveled out to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to have his body's natural radiation measured...
...Welch, a retired candymaker and self-styled Americanist, who rates Harry Truman, John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others, as Communist agents or dupes. "Good God," roared Kuchel while rushing to Ike's rescue, "should the American people and the American Government let that kind of spleen be poured upon one who has given his whole life to freedom?" Connecticut's burly Tom Dodd, a conservative Democrat and tough antiCommunist, joined in. Welch's judgments, said he, are "an affront to decency and intelligence...
...diseases caused by small viruses, mono has no cure. Patients are kept in bed. with absolute rest, to protect the spleen and liver. Some doctors believe that in severe cases drugs of the cortisone type help reduce the inflammation and therefore safeguard the liver. Two weeks in bed and another of complete rest are usually enough, with good doctoring, to ensure full recovery...