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Betty Ford's debut is the most recent in a string of cosmetic admissions in the '70s by public figures. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, for one, issued a press release about his hair transplant and may have had an eyelift too. There has also been news of hair transplants for Frank Sinatra, Roy Clark and Strom Thurmond, a facelift for Jackie Gleason, face and breast architectural work for Cher, an eyelift, facelift and breast reduction for Phyllis Diller, and there is a growing national tendency to regard cosmetic surgery as a badge of sophistication, rather than of vanity...
What obviously amused Kaufman and Hart was that the Hollywood of the period was a Seventh Avenue transplant...
Norman Shumway, Stanford heart-transplant pioneer, and his colleague, Immunologist Rose Payne, who kept the new hearts from being rejected...
...Holy Cross, basketball transplant Ronnie Perry had a couple of hits and played well enough at shortstop to make up for his three-error performance last year at Harvard, from whence came the famous needle, "Hey, Perry, you don't have to dribble it before you throw...
DADDY WARBUCKS KNEW how to play the game, Just let anybody mess around with his little orphan, Annie--Asian smuuglers, Russian spies out to topple the free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion...