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Free, liberal Chile last week felt a bone-chilling wind blow down from the Andes. The Government announced that it had discovered a subversive plot involving "Latin American neighbors." Not much more was told. No names. No arrests as yet. But every Chilean thought of the arrogant "Colonels Clique" of Argentina and of its suspected desire to organize similar Fascist regimes in neighboring countries. Said Arturo Espinoza, Army commander in chief: "The Army is awake with its eyes wide open and will defend the Constitutional Government...
...Such bone-reading feats have endeared Professor Krogman to policemen throughout the Middle West. They often consult him in baffling cases, are invariably astonished at the precision with which he reconstructs the corpus delicti-and sometimes the crime. Professor Krogman, an ardent detective-story fan, loves this kind of work. In the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin this great authority on bone measurement recently described his uncannily accurate methods...
...means of well-established formulas, for example, an individual's face can be reconstructed accurately from his skull, his height calculated with 99% precision from certain single bones (e.g., a man's height is usually 1.88 times the length of his thigh bone plus 813.06 mm.). A person's bones "almost literally punch a time clock" as he grows. Sure clues are the uniting of long bones to their caps and the successive disappearance of sutures (seams) in the skull, which occur at precisely known stages in a man's life. Some Krogman performances...
...Relief. Sonny Tufts, 29, is 4-F's gift to Hollywood. He stands 6 ft. 4 in his socks, bears down on them with 200 Ib. of well-balanced beef and bone. But under all this somatic splendor is a broken man: two shattered shoulders, two knees with floating cartilages, one cracked pelvis, one crushed hand. Causes: sports and fights from prep school on. When he first came up for the Army physical, Tufts was classified 1-B. He asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next...
Said an I.N.S. dispatch: "A shell fragment splintered his skull through the steel helmet he was wearing. He was rushed to an aid station and then to hospital, where he was operated on immediately. Eleven pieces of bone and nine pieces of brain tissue were successfully removed." Said Army medical authorities: Tregaskis is "coming along satisfactorily," will take at least six months to recover...