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...about ready to bind them closer than wedlock. A year ago Clara Howard, 13, emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire. Her apron caught fire and she was hospitalized with terrible first degree burns. When she was discharged she had no skin left on her torso, arms and neck. Scars held the flesh of her arms to the flesh of her sides. She could not turn her head because the lower part of her chin had grown to her chest...
...wall are two smaller statues, a torso and a so-called Narcissus, and two fine fragments showing a battle of Greeks and Amazons from a Roman sarcophagus of the third century A. D. In the remaining spaces are grouped several Attic grave reliefs and a number of heads, notably a wrestler, a Grecian matron, and a woman of Palmyra. Against the window is an urn, a third century lekythos...
...characters achieved prominence in a piquant period, it was to be expected that something in the way of written reminiscences would sooner or later appear. But Bohemians are notoriously lackadaisical about such matters, and though Kiki's Memoirs (Black Manikin Press; Paris, 1930) and Hamnett's Laughing Torso (Long & Smith, 1932) have been published, it was to small audiences; the panning of Montparnasse gold has been largely left to the more journalistically-minded. Third in the authentic train, Jimmy Charters' narrative would be condemned forthwith as a rehashing of minor and well-chewed-over material-the renamings...
...respirators consists of a copper hood which fits over the patient's abdomen from hips to ribs; the other of an aluminum hood which covers the entire torso from hips to collar bone. Intermittent air suction in the abdominal hood expands and contracts a patient's lungs by forcing his diaphragm up and down. Similar suction in the torso hood compels breathing by moving both the diaphragm and the chest wall...
Inventor of the abdominal hood is Bernard Liebel, 22, a summer student at Toronto's Banting (insulin) Institute. The torso hood is a Swedish device modified by Dr. Claude Ellis Forkner. the doctor who transported paralyzed Frederick B. Snite Jr. from Peiping to Chicago in a standard "iron lung" (TIME. June 14). This week, as cinema photographers record the scene, young Snite expects to change over to the new torso respirator. If all goes well, he will be able for the first time in a year to sit propped up in bed, to have a tub bath...