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...Mayo Clinic cut the sympathetic nerves involved. The most effective operation. said Dr. Adson, is rhizotomy, or the snipping of the nerve roots as they come out of the spinal column. To accomplish this, Dr. Adson cuts ribs on both sides of the chest and almost takes the torso apart...
Died. Gaston LaChaise, 53, French-born sculptor; of leukemia; in Manhattan. Famed was he for figures of mighty contours and vast dimensions, one of which, a tremendous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL, was last year acquired by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, July 23, 1934). A massive man who somewhat resembled his own work, LaChaise used to say: "My statue grows, it has to be big. I cannot help...
...another of those numerous New York City boondoggling projects--and Chang wanted to show his intelligent disapproval of it. His spirit is to be admired but his error of judgment to be lamented. He has nothing to show for his zeal but a trunk and torso sadly plastered with red paint. Which reminds us that a critic these days is very likely to get smeared...
...Alice Brady, husband of Actress Katharine Alexander, onetime partner of Producer Dwight Deere Wiman, with whom he staged The Road to Rome, The Command To Love, The Little Show; mysteriously in a borrowed bungalow which burned to the ground; near Colts Neck, N. J. Burned away except for the torso and one leg, the body was found in the smoking ruins near a melted half-pint flask, an automatic pistol with five cartridges in the magazine exploded, apparently by heat. Miss George stopped the run of Kind Lady in which she had the leading role...
...berserk athlete was Outfielder Leonard ("Len") Koenecke, 31, onetime railroad fireman noted among his Brooklyn Dodger teammates for his muscular torso, his pugnacity, his inability to hold hard liquor. Last week he was given his paycheck in St. Louis, where the team was playing, told to go home to his wife and child. Disconsolate at this dismissal, he started drinking on the way, was ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took...