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...happen when a cell from a cancerous bone floats through the blood and takes root in the brain. Last week the American Journal of Cancer carried the report of such a bone in the brain of a man who originally had a cancer in his left thigh bone...
Ever since he retired with a brutally torn thigh seven years ago, the return of the great Juan Belmonte to the arena has been a perennial spring rumor in Spain. Sports writers were always suspicious, knew that even before he was gored Belmonte had such weak legs that he was forced to invent a special technique that made him the darling of the 20 nations that are the Spanish-speaking world. Besides, was he not operating a vast and apparently thriving olive farm and brood ranch in Andalusia...
Several days later at Santander a crowd of black-bereted Basques rose gasping to their feet as the great Belmonte was tossed, gored in the thigh by another bull. He was not seriously hurt, was able to finish the fight. Less fortunate was another veteran of Belmonte's generation, Ignacio Sanchez Mejia. Also attempting a come back at Manzanares, he was so badly gored that despite operations and blood transfusions, he died...
...Sweet pulled on his operating gloves, Warden Lawes, under a brilliant, shadowless box light, felt a nurse swabbing the sore thigh with iodine. Another swung a table of instruments handy. A Negro artist serving a life sentence stepped up on a stool near the operating table. He had pad and pencil to picture the entire operation. Dr. Sweet jabbed a local anesthetic into Warden Lawes's leg. The Warden winced. The Surgeon sliced. The Warden felt nothing. The Surgeon clamped blood vessels, sliced some more, reached a fibrous capsule which enclosed the "tumor...
...people for whom Captain Hamer had been look-ing for the last six months. One was a red-haired Dallas girl whose maiden name was Bonnie Parker. Her distinguishing characteristics were a lightning trigger finger, a fondness for cigars, and a heart bearing the name "Roy" tattooed on her thigh. Roy Thornton was the name of her husband, but since he began serving a long sentence at Houston, Tex., her companion has been the other person for whom Captain Hamer was looking-Clyde Barrow. Clyde Barrow's youth in Dallas was devoted to stealing automobiles...