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Cricket and T-Bone Steaks. Australia, whose land is nearly as large as the U.S., but whose population is only about one-twentieth as big, turns out bigger sports crowds than the U.S. All last week, Australian radios blared the latest news of the play for "The Ashes,"* the traditional cricket matches with England. Before 80,000 noisy fans in Sydney, down went England again in the second of the five test matches. (In London, a man who feared that England was not taking its defeat with proper "lightness of heart" wrote the Daily Telegraph: "Some will say that...
Hospitable Australians saw to it that the U.S. Davis Cup training table was filled with pitchers of milk-which is scarce in Melbourne-and T-bone steaks, which are scarcer. U.S. players got so many party invitations that they finally turned them all down. Jack Kramer got word that he had become a father-and was allowed one beer to celebrate...
...soldier's hand had been shattered by a grenade explosion. Tendons, nerves and parts of bone up to the wrist were gone. In nine cases out of ten, amputation would have been routine. But surgeons in this case set to work to rebuild the hand...
...Operation. The operation is delicate. The surgeon cuts two openings in the skull, one on each side above the temples, removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...
Soon other cases turned up. Friedman treated them with the hospital's 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine, "Big Bertha," found that he could arrest their cancers if he adjusted the X-ray dose to the contents of the tumor, i.e., one dose for bone, another for lung, etc. All told, he treated 256 G.I.s with cancer of the testes, got a high percentage of improvement...