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...fashion to describe a badly mixed cocktail by saying: "It tastes as if Douglas had been polishing at least half his medals in it." Not long ago, Fairbanks in impeccable white tie & tails strode into White's with a full complement of medals and orders gleaming on his chest. An effete British voice broke the hushed silence. "Enter Captain Hornblower," it said...
Hygiene's widespread precautionary system has prevented the spread of any major epidemic since the great flu rage of 1918. The only recent flare-up was another rash of influenza that was quickly scotched two years ago. In '48 a state-subsidized chest x-ray program found only 3 cases of active tuberculosis out of 7.563 pictures, well below the national average...
...members of his family hired a lawyer, threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone Elm, Kans. and buried him by the light of flashlights. Said Undertaker Boydstun...
...skull-joined twin boys was in the news. One of the four-month-old boys died suddenly; his twin died with in hours before surgeons could free him. In Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital, twin girls were born with a band of cartilage joining them at the chest. Dr. Jac Geller cut the babies apart ("Really very simple," he said), and both were soon doing well in incubators. After such a superficial link, they have every chance of growing up to be normal women, and with hardly a scar to show...
...children. "I'll show you," he said to me. "Pete, isn't this the worst present of all?" Pete was reading a comic book and didn't answer. "And look at this." The fat child pulled a polo shirt from his pocket and held it in front of his chest. "See," he said, "it's too small." He ran over to another child and began comparing polo shirts...