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...when Nome's telephone operator, named Jeff, called: "Come on now, Doc. You get up." Dr. Kennedy got to work at 9, shooing late hotel guests out of his waiting room. When a patient came in "who looked as though he had cleaned his teeth with his elbow," Dr. Kennedy told him about toothbrushes and not to come back for treatment until he had used one. The Doctor's hardest cases were the shattered mouths of saloon brawlers...
...second week of their culminating blow - and the tenth of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians...
This plywood equipment was easy on the eye as well as the rump and elbow. It was one designer's offering of just what the furniture industry needed: cheapness, mass production, portability, adaptability to clean, gimcrackless modern architecture...
Peter Gray lost his right arm (well above the elbow) in an automobile accident when he was six. Despite his handicap, he was leading his league last week in both batting (.393) and fielding (1.000). True, he had played only 16 games (he broke his collarbone diving for a shoestring catch early in the season). But in those 16 games, his first in organized baseball, Pete Gray had given fans something to cheer about...
...operation: two canals are fashioned In the muscles of the arm, one in the flexors, one in the extensors. The surgeon marks out a two-inch square of skin above the elbow or wrist (on a handless arm), cuts it at the top, bottom and one outer edge. Then he rolls the upper and lower sides of the skin into a little tube and stitches them together. This leaves the underlying muscle exposed...