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...women suffering from severe stomach and intestinal ulcers have submitted during the past three years to a revolutionary operation for their disorder. Its discoverer: Dr. Lester Reynold Dragstedt, gentle, stooped professor of surgery at the University of Chicago Medical School. His operation: opening the patient's chest above the diaphragm, cutting the two vagus nerves where they lead to the stomach and intestines...
...Empress sank with 1,024 passengers. Congratulating himself on not having repeated the captain's mistake, Dr. Miller tied off the vein, hauled the carotid artery out of the way and pulled out the stick, which ran from the boy's jaw down through his neck and chest to the fourth...
...Chicago's dailies (TIME, July 29). Last week, when he made it official, they lavished page after page on his confession and his "reenactment" of his crimes. Lest anybody forget who had scooped whom, the Tribune (which gave the confession story 38 columns) pinned a medal on its chest...
...Poznan headquarters I was turned over to a character right out of Gogol-a middleaged, dark-bearded gentleman in the uniform of a Polish major, nine medals (not ribbons, medals) on his chest. His name was Vinokurov-a distinctly Russian name, but he agreed to speak Russian to me only when it became clear that conversation in Polish was quite impossible. The Major was scrupulously polite. I showed him my passport, Russian zonal permit, car registration, driver's license, etc. All were in order, but the Major went on to other questions: How was it that I spoke Russian...
Burned Up. In lola, Kans., during a heated altercation with the umpire, Catcher Dave Dennis' chest protector burst into flames...