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...Games. But there he was, laid out by a freak accident six weeks ago, just as he was getting ready to begin his campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination from Ohio. Glenn slipped on a throw rug, while trying to hoist a mirror back onto its tracks in the bathroom of his Columbus apartment, and cracked the left side of his head against the bathtub. The blow injured his inner ear, disrupting the vital apparatus that governs coordination, equilibrium and balance (see MEDICINE). Glenn had hoped that he would recover in time to resign from the Marines and wage...
...first trip out of Brooklyn-a subway ride to Manhattan to see The Diary of Anne Frank. "I remember thinking that I could go up on the stage and play any role without any trouble at all," she says. After school at home, she used to smoke in the bathroom and do cigarette commercials into the mirror, but she never bothered to go out for school plays. "Why go out for an amateurish high school production when you can do the real thing...
...only two books in sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied down and destroyed by all the sterility of the modern times...
...after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell in his bathroom, while trying to fix a loose cabinet, and struck the back of his head...
...from a Break. When he relayed his suicidal thoughts to his doctors, they hustled him into Manhattan's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic for the summer. Hodgins had hardly gotten out when he found himself back in a hospital-this time with a broken hip, the result of a bathroom fall. It proved a lucky break. Although immobile once more, he was suffering at last from a socially approved ailment: a broken hip, he points out, is perfectly respectable, whereas a stroke or a breakdown is "loaded with connotations...