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...Chicago, Barry Stephens, an artists' agent who has looked at legs long enough to tell one Radio City Rockette from another, called a turn: "The scrawny, thin leg is out. A fuller calf and a longer thigh is the trend, and we men see a return to the 'beef trusters.' " Notable among his fuller-calfed, longer-thighed legs: Alice Faye's, Ann Miller's, Betty Grable's. Marlene Dietrich's? "Too skinny...
...poked a gun in her ribs, drove her to a mountain resort where he kept her stripped for three days. He pleaded to let him come back. She refused. One day, a shot ripped through the kitchen window of his wife's home and hit her in the thigh...
From the soldier's abdomen, the surgeons grafted tissue to give the hand form. From his foot they got tendons (which the foot could get along without), from his thigh, slippery tissue for the tendons to slide on; from his calf, sections of nerve; from his hip, a piece of flank bone. Transplanted, these body materials in a few weeks gave the soldier a new hand, not perfect, but good enough to do carpentry with...
...United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
...secret of the Page-Glasser method is the speed of transfusion. Intravenous transfusion, which restores blood to the arteries by the roundabout course of veins and lungs, is necessarily slow. But by pumping blood rapidly into the main thigh artery, Page & Glasser completed a massive transfusion in one minute...