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...eyelid is damaged by injury or disease it can be mended satisfactorily by grafting a bit of skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...
...greatest horse in Australian turf history had died of poison soon after his arrival in the U. S., dark suspicions might have hung for years between U. S. and Australian sportsmen. Last week University of California pathologists finished their examination of the vitals of the late great Phar Lap ("Wink of the Sky"). They had, they reported, found traces of poison, probably some of the insecticide found on grass which the horse was known to have eaten (TIME, April 18). But they had found only two milligrams of arsenic, an amount so small that it should have been actually beneficial...
Like his name, which in Javanese means "Wink of the Sky" (Lightning), Phar Lap's death was sudden, frightful, mysterious. His trainer, Tommy Woodcock, who always slept within a few feet of Phar Lap's stall, had gone into the stall early in the morning and found Phar Lap lying down. He had called Phar Lap's veterinary, Dr. Walter Nielsen. They diagnosed colic. As the big, long-legged carcass stiffened, Dr. Nielsen took out its stomach and entrails. These told him that Phar Lap had been ill two days...
...Foch. Though an oldish soldier (62) when the War began, he became before its close France's symbol and stimulant of undefeat. "The Man of Orleans," as Biographer Hart subtitles him, filled the role of national redeemer when the Kaiser was Satan and when, for a four-year wink of the Divine eye, God was French...
Berthed for $5,000 aboard the S. S. Monwai from New Zealand, Phar Lap (Senegalese for "Wink of the Sky"), the "red terror" of the Australian turf, arrived last week in San Francisco. A long-limbed chestnut gelding, Phar Lap (son of Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March...