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Living Dangerously. In Elmira, N.Y., St. Joseph's Hospital treated a right middle finger, dislocated when the patient pulled his hand out of his pocket. In Greencastle, Ind., thirsty John Torr tilted his head to drink a bottle of pop, was hospitalized with a cracked vertebra...
...play the viola. After running away from Miss Porter's four times, she restrained herself until she reached 19, then did "what one does at 19": eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument, 3) began recording music. Soon nothing would do but perfection. Says she: "I'm just damn tired of hearing bad records...
...cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character at best, is never quite real. When she is accidentally shot by her third or fourth lover, Ravic prepares to operate on her. Then he finds that the bullet has shattered a vertebra. No operation is possible. His skill, which has saved so many lives that mean little to him, can do nothing for Joan, who means much to him. Joan dies the day the Germans invade Poland, and the world, like a blob of soggy ice cream oozing off a spoon, slides...
...Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had a bruised hand and ankle and a chipped vertebra after his plane crash-landed into a tree near Oldenburg, Germany...
Slammin' Sammy Snead cussed his corset and his hook. Without his corset, he wouldn't be playing golf at all; even with it, his lame back (slipped vertebra) needed two weeks of rest in every six. His hook off the tee continually landed him in tall grass, behind trees. Yet crowd-drawing, drawling Sammy had somehow managed to stand the winter circuit troupe on its par-cracking ear. Ever since his 26-month hitch in the Navy, the once temperamental Samuel Jackson Snead had played with a brand new and compelling confidence...