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...helping Manhattan's Alderson Research Laboratories to test it), the switches have been shifted from the toes to the stump at the shoulder. This puts into practice one of the principles espoused by Orthopedist Kessler: the controls must be as nearly natural as possible, so that the wearer will have to learn a minimum of new reflexes and responses. Seeley, who lost both arms at 14 when he was run over by a train, now works his electric arm by six switches which are actuated by twitches of his shoulder muscles. With his new arm, he can dress himself...
Nichols, the 220-pound wearer of number 77, was the Crimson's top offensive and defensive lineman throughout the 1951 season. Possessing the build and speed of a good a tackle, Nichols has always played at that position at Montelair, New Jersey, High School, on the 1947 New England Championship football team at Loomis School, and at Harvard...
Charley Thurber, the boys' father, was tall, thin, an inveterate wearer of derby hats, and by profession an unsuccessful politican. Although he kept running for various offices until he was nearly 65, he never got elected to any. When there were six leading candidates for five offices, Charley Thurber would invariably finish sixth. Too honest to play ball with a political machine, and too amiable and gentle to be a winning maverick, he was a chronic also...
...rose rapidly: Chief of War Plans Division of the General Staff, then Deputy Chief of Staff in 1938, Acting Chief of Staff in July 1939. The day the Nazis attacked Poland, Sept.1, 1939, Franklin Roosevelt reached over the heads of 34 senior officers to make Marshall Chief of Staff, wearer of the four stars of a full general and, as events turned, one of the principal architects of victory in World War II. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson called him "the finest soldier I have ever known...
Anna Rosenberg is a 5 ft. 3 dynamo and a resolute wearer of outlandishly feminine hats which cover one of the shrewdest heads in public life. A Hungarian-her father made furniture for the Emperor-who was brought to the U.S. at ten, she has never quite disposed of her Budapest accent. She has been alternately charming or browbeating people into accord since her junior year at New York's Wadleigh High School. There, during World War I, she persuaded boys at two neighboring high schools to end their strike over compulsory military drill which lengthened the school...