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Died. Barney Ross, 57, prizefighter, who won three (lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight) world titles in the 1930s, and a couple of important other victories in later life; of throat cancer; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago shopkeeper, Ross was a bookish 14-year-old studying to be a Hebrew teacher when his father was murdered by two hoodlums, who subsequently went free on a technicality. Raging at the law, Barney took to the streets himself, finally became a fighter to feed his family. His boxing style was all guts-and so was his style as a U.S. Marine...
Lance Corporal Walter Lopata made medical history last week when he sat up in his Boston hospital bed and said,"Hello-how are you?" He probably could have said more, but the doctors wouldn't let him try, lest he damage the delicate needlework in his throat. For Lopata had no larynx or vocal cords. These were removed in October after they had been torn to shreds by fragments from a Viet Cong grenade. What he had was a reconstructed throat, the first of its kind in the U.S. and probably in the world...
Skin Valve. Most patients who lose the larynx are cancer victims. These number about 6,000 a year in the U.S., and more than half of them learn to speak again by swallowing huge gulps of air. When they bring it up, it makes the throat muscles vibrate at a fixed, almost toneless pitch, in what Dr. William W. Montgomery of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary calls "an educated burp." Every time Surgeon Montgomery has done a laryngectomy, he has longed for a way to give the patient something better than this burping speech. He saw the results...
...Montgomery and Navy Surgeon Robert Toohill embarked upon the first stage of restoring his speech. To make sure that Lopata's reconstructed windpipe would not let food into his lungs, they built an artificial valve just below the base of his tongue (see diagram) by cutting into his throat and turning two flaps of skin inward. Lopata had been breathing for a month through a hole lower down in his neck. The surgeons fitted this hole with a tube through which he could breathe, and made another opening above it in preparation for the next phase...
...interviewer clears his throat. "Well, what do you fellows think about clubs anyway. Why do you want to join Ivy?" And in five or ten minutes it is over. Another club representative comes in and the ordeal begins again...