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From sheer whimsicality, the mythical Greek giant Procrustes stretched short men out to fit a long bed. Eight years ago, Los Angeles' Dr. Alvia Brockway decided to try a scientific Procrustean operation on his patients, who, cured of infantile paralysis or tuberculosis of the hip, hobbled about with one leg shorter than the other. Last week he announced in California and Western Medicine that of 75 operations performed in the Orthopaedic Hospital, 90% were successful...
...Said Dr. Brockway, who has scientifically pulled more legs than any other physician in the world: "I have no hesitancy in stating that in the hands of competent men this operation is safe and practical when the lengthening is done below the knee." Lengthening of the thigh is more difficult because the muscles are tougher and resist stretching, and the position of the nerves makes any slight infection dangerous...
There are two bones in the lower leg: the small fibula and the large tibia. Dr. Brockway cuts the tibia halfway through at right angles, slits it down to the desirable length, cuts it again at right angles to make a Z-shaped break. The fibula is cut slantwise. Pins are inserted in each bone above and below the break and after the flesh heals around them, are connected by a turnbuckle which is screwed 1/20 to 1/25th of an inch each day until the leg is stretched. The patient feels no pain during the stretching. Three inches...
...merged it with small Miss Chandor's School, under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time Headmistress Chandor died last autumn Spence was again heading up. To carry on the good work the trustees last week picked as her successor and the school's fifth headmistress Miss Dorothy Brockway. Pretty, young (37), brunette Dorothy Brockway, graduate of swankless Barnard College, has for the past eight years been assistant supervisor at Miss Hewitt's classes. Practical Miss Brockway's pet policy is emphasizing citizenship, showing her pupils how the other 99% live. To this end she has made...
President since President Bean's death last spring has been ruddy, sociable Robert Fager Black, onetime head of Brockway, onetime vice president of Mack. Hardly had he had time to hang his hat in his new office before he was confronted with a strike, which was peacefully settled after Mr. Black bought the picketers balls, bats and gloves, set them to base-balling in a nearby parking lot. White's Black has not lifted the company out of the red, but he is on record with the prediction that White's 1936 production will top the Wartime...