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...infant, Henry could toddle about only with difficulty because he was badly club-footed and on his left foot he had only one toe, the great. His right foot had no toes at all. But at the ankle there was a movable, thumblike protuberance. This, as he grew older, he used effectively for washing himself, brushing his teeth and sometimes writing and drawing. Later he learned to grasp objects between his cheek and shoulder, thereby to open doors, hold a pencil or a stick with which he would strike the keys of a typewriter...
...stumps. There were faint traces of some armless muscles. With boldness and calculation tha surgeon went to work; cut loose the stumps, brought them free; stretched muscles; grafted flesh and skin; produced two arm stumps as large around as the arm of a two-year-old baby. These grew strong, grew larger. Henry became able to wiggle them at will. Artificial arms were carefully fitted over them. He could do things for himself. Best of all he could have regular shirts "with sleeves." His joy when for the first time in his life he was dressed conventionally was so great...
...doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined was she to excite notice and envy that when she met a mild-mannered young English secretary in Cape Town, she invented for him a grand character, paraded him in Lebanon, married him and went to England...
...Pennsylvania the legislature was hastily canvassing a hundred proposals for settlement. Distress in the mining regions grew more and more acute. In some places there were demonstrations by miners against coal washeries, which were still in operation. But there was no sign of any actual negotiations for settlement...
...comrades, Pilot Charles H. Ames, crashed into an Alleghany mountain (TIME, Oct. 19). The boy helped in the long search for Ames' remains. One night last week the boy, Pilot Art Smith, aged 32, whizzing eastward, got two miles out of his course crossing Ohio. Near Montpelier there grew a tree. How, why, one cannot say, a committee of the Service is investigating, but the tree was invisible to him. Night echoed a rending crash, flames leapt out of the wreckage. Pilot Art Smith of the Air Mail was no more, the second to die on duty since the overnight...