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Britain's famed 18th century plastic surgeon John Hunter once summed up his professional philosophy in a single curt phrase: "Why not try?" Today's reputable plastic surgeon is less impetuous. Aware that he often operates within surgery's twilight zone-past the point of obvious physical need-he is inclined to weigh his would-be patients' motives. For advice in sticky cases, he may turn to a psychiatrist. Members of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recently did just that when they invited Dr. Wayne E. Jacobson of the University of California...
Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. The twilight years of a dandy, Sir Max Beerbohm, sketched with grace, fondness and urbanity. Decorated with many a scathingly eloquent caricature by "the incomparable...
...Balfour, Oscar Wilde and Henry James as if he inhabited a kind of sempiternal Edwardia. He also found him talking. Apart from copious quotations from Max's own writings and a generous sprinkling of his superlative caricatures, Portrait of Max is a graciously spliced tape recording of the twilight talk of a minor, but finely mannered, man of letters...
High above the earth, Kittinger studied a frontier that few men have seen. "Up there,'' he recalled afterwards, "the sky looked dark enough to see stars as one would at twilight on earth." Up, up, up the balloon rose, to 98,800 ft. above the ground (102,800 ft. above sea level), higher than any human being had ever soared before in nonpowered flight. Shortly after 7 a.m., Kittinger ticked off his go-second countdown in radio communication with the ground. Then he "asked the Lord for help," flopped over the side of the gondola, and began...
...rebuttal, Majority Leader Johnson, long accused of being too easy on the Eisenhower Administration, showed an unaccustomed, election-year militancy. "I think it is rather tragic," he said, "that in the twilight of his career, the President, upon his return from Newport, should set out all the items that are embraced within the Democratic platform. I wish he had exercised the same kind of leadership during the past seven years...