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...massive collection of Brady material gathered by the late Frederick Hill Meserve, the editors assemble Brady's portraits of the great (including several haunting shots of a careworn Lincoln), of luminaries from the worlds of politics, literature and the theater, and of such strange creatures as Tom Thumb (an enchanting series documents the famous midget's wedding) and Siamese Twins Chang and Eng. Brady's crystalline landscape shots capture the building of monuments in Washington and New York. The introduction and running commentaries not only chronicle Brady's techniques and career-they also illustrate the rise...
...Sorel, the Voice cartoonist who is a true inheritor of Thomas Nast's tradition of political caricature in this country, among others. The real factor of course, will be money. This week's 28-page issue contains about four pages of ads, and the general rule of thumb says that to break even about half the issue has to be advertisements. Look for a 24-page issue two weeks from...
...absorbed into adjacent tissues. The same thing happened to the finger bones; the fingers do not become gangrenous and drop off, as many scare stories have it, but the bones are gradually broken down and absorbed until the hand is left with only short stumps where fingers and thumb should be. Foot drop-paralysis caused by nerve damage to the muscles that control lifting of the foot-is also a common feature of leprosy's ravages. The lepromatous form of the disease causes "lion's head," the most severe facial disfigurement...
...covered was almost 300 miles, and it took him four months to get there. The most fecund female on record was a Texas cat named Dusty, who gave birth to her 420th kitten in 1952 at the age of 17. By the popular and extremely rough rule of thumb that one year of a cat's life equals seven of a human's, that would make Dusty...
Connors played erratically for most of the tournament, going to five sets with Stan Smith before pulling out a win. He was bothered by an injury sustained in a pre-Wimbledon practice session and played with a metal splint on his right thumb...