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...didn't surprise me to read in your article [Dec. 11] on Dr. William Brady and his asinine practices that he had cracked a vertebra while somersaulting. I did the same thing nine years ago in following his advice on turning somersaults...
...William Brady, a spry, 84-year old resident of Beverly Hills, takes great pride in his health. Brady is deaf in one ear, and a few months ago he had to give up daily somersaulting after cracking a vertebra in a dizzy spell following a spin. But his eyes are bright, 16 of his teeth are his own, and his arteries are no harder than those of a man of 45. All told, Brady makes a lively exhibit for the efficacy of his own advice, which he has dispensed daily through his syndicated column " Personal Health Service," for the past...
Barry Ellman, the team's top ground gainer and starting right halfback, has an infected foot and won't play. Even more seriously hurt is left half Whit Smith, with a broken vertebra...
Miss Irizarry-Ramirez suffered a broken vertebra when the rope which she was descending snapped and she fell nearly nine feet to the floor of the gymnasium. Miss Irizarry-Ramirez is out of the hospital and has been atending classes regularly...
...maneuver called a "flifis": a double backward somersault with a twist. Something went wrong. He seemed to lose control in midair, fell 14 ft. head-first and sprawled motionless on the trampoline. Paralyzed from the neck down, he was rushed to a hospital, where doctors found a dislocated cervical vertebra-in layman's language, a broken neck. At week's end his condition was still listed as "critical," and the probability of permanent paralysis was "very high." Sternberg seemed resigned to the end of his vaulting days. "You change your values fast," he said. "I just hope...