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...general surgeon-who, ironically, was himself the king of specialists little more than a generation ago. As orthopedists (bone and joint men) spread out from the big medical-college centers, many surgeons find themselves driven back from the body's extremities. As they retreat to the trunk, they find gynecologists, urologists and others staking claims on some particular organ or area. Only half the general surgeons polled still do orthopedic operations; only one in five does urological, plastic or heart-artery procedures...
...Since the 40th District [the cops' own] was guarding it, it was very easy for all the boys to help themselves . . . We all started loading tons of these shoes. We filled up 30 or 40 big cartons with shoes. We were filling the squad car up and the trunk with shoes, all different sizes, for all their relatives and themselves. They're all wearing these shoes-it says Crawford Shoes on them. Everybody got four or five pair in their home. The rest of them were all given away to everybody else. There...
SLEEP LONG, MY LOVE, by Hillary Waugh (192 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), begins with the most traditional of all detective-story discoveries: the trunk in the trunk. It takes Fred Fellows, police chief in a small Connecticut town, several chapters merely to learn the identity of the dead blonde, or even that she is a blonde, since she has been separated from her head as well as her limbs. Spying out her falsehearted lover is an even tougher problem. Clever readers may spot the lady killer a few pages before the end, but the author has marked a fine trail...
...victims of romance. In telling its tale, Saratoga snows cliches, trips over its own gaudy furnishings, and interminably keeps a heroine who was born out of wedlock from entering it. An added trouble: lacking all freshness and zip, the show possesses no compensating charm or style. Everything that Saratoga Trunk scattered with a lavish hand, Saratoga lays on with a heavy...
...Yourself Christmas Tree. Six-foot Christmas trees with removable fir boughs that can be assembled at home were developed by Oregon Beauty Christmas Tree Co. for Montgomery Ward stores. The trees come in a kit containing 46 fireproofed Douglas fir boughs and a drilled wooden trunk into which the boughs are stuck to create a perfectly shaped tree. Price...