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...chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles. Ev Knowles's shoulder joint was intact. The break in the humerus (the only bone in the upper arm) was between two and three inches below the joint. Says M.G.H. Spokesman Dr. Robert Shaw: "It was as though the arm had been laid on a bar and whacked with a sledge into multiple fragments." About an inch of the bone had been destroyed, mainly on the outer side...
...diagnosis: "Little League elbow" and "Little League shoulder." Both troubles result from the fact that bone and cartilage in youngsters have not hardened to the point where they can sustain the stress of continued hard pitching. In Little League elbow, the piece of bone that rests at the end of the elbow (the medial epicondylar epiphysis) is pulled out of position by tendons and muscles and is sometimes fractured. In Little League shoulder, the cartilage near the end of the upper arm bone (humerus) is torn loose. Both injuries require immobilization with a cast, splint, or sling...
...time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...
...happened, how Kaline's diving three-string catch of Elsten Howard's low liner saved a Detroit victory and how, after lying prostrate in short right-center for five minutes, Kaline walked off the field--only to pass out in the shower and learn he had a broken collar-bone. Always a super-star, the 27-year-old Kaline was enjoying the best season's start of his career, carrying the slumping Tigers on his back. The lead was too heavy...
...full speed-into the wrong lane and collision course with a bakery truck. But despite Batchelor's invitation, the undertaker declined. The 74-year-old cartoonist survived scalp and face cuts and multiple bruises; his wife suffered a collapsed lung, fractures of the left wrist and pelvic bone...