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This week, working with no room to spare through their "hole in the ice," the orthopedists operated. They inserted wedges of bone (from a deep-frozen bone bank) between seven vertebrae, fixing this part of the spine so that it could not bend again. To allow time for the grafts to fuse solidly. Margie must spend at least six months in the rigid cast, though she can now enjoy the luxury of having her head free. Then there will be a "holding jacket," reaching only to the hips, for four months; most of that time Margie, though at home, will...
...Live TV has that little element of human fallibility," Singer Dinah Shore once said. "If you make a mistake, you can use that old ham bone and capitalize on it." Last week Dinah almost got knocked off-camera by a playful poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest...
...operation, each patient got only a local anesthetic, an injection of procaine hydrochloride into the scalp. Then, with a drill and saw, Dr. Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed...
...salt pan was removed and the bone flap replaced. (It would grow back solidly into the skull in three or four weeks.) By the time the patient was wheeled back to his room, the uncontrollable tremor, the involuntary bending of the arm and turning in of the thumb on the right side had disappeared. In a few months, both patients will return to Iowa City for treatment of the ansa lenticularis on the right, to halt the Parkinsonian movements of their left sides...
Remote & Austere. He quit Budapest in 1950. Emaciated, half-paralyzed, speaking with a slur, Klemperer kept hunting for occasional conducting jobs. In 1951, in Canada, he fell again and broke his left thigh bone. Hobbling about on crutches, he still had the will to conduct but not the strength to stand up while doing it. Sitting on the podium before orchestras, he showed his old relentless temperament. One day, while conducting Don Giovanni in Cologne, he was so moved at the crash of trombone chords announcing the arrival of the statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood...