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Richard W. Clarkson '56 of Leverett House died of cancer yesterday at his home in Baltimore...
Richards, who has been running the first log in the record-breaking mile relay with Little, Howe, and Alpers, will be favored to capture the 1000-yard run today. He should get pushed, however, by Dartmouth's Walt Clarkson, if the versatile Indian runs in this event...
...active boy a broken arm is bad enough, but when Terry McNamara broke his right arm he was completely disabled. He had been born with no fingers on his left hand-"nothing but little buttons." in the words of Patrick Clarkson, one of Britain's ranking plastic surgeons. But the broken arm proved to be a good thing for Terry in the long run: his mother, who runs a fruit stand in the grubby Elephant & Castle area of South London, took him to Guy's Hospital. There. Surgeon Clarkson saw him and got an idea...
...leave you with a limp." Mr. Clarkson told Terry, but the boy, then n, thought it was worth while, and his mother agreed. So he spent six weeks in an uncomfortable position, with his fingerless left hand joined to the toes of his left foot by a skin flap. Then Surgeon Clarkson amputated the toes and grafted them in place of the missing fingers. That was 4½ years...
...Surgeon Clarkson knows, this is the first transfer of a complete set of five digits. Terry's new fingers will probably never grow longer than they would have as toes. But there is hope that they will keep on growing for a while. As for that limp, his shortened left foot does not keep Terry, now 16, from playing soccer with his schoolmates...