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...year history of the papacy has there been a clearer example of the life-giving powers of devotion to piety and duty (though there were longer-lived Popes) than Pius XII. Though he had been severely ill several times, and was eventually found to have a hiatus hernia (TIME, Dec. 27, 1954), he functioned with full efficiency well beyond his 80th birthday and until the strokes that swiftly killed him (see RELIGION...
...occupations. After appendectomy, reported Philadelphia Surgeon N. Henry Moss at a Manhattan conference, doctors recommend that their civilian patients return to light work within anywhere from five to 30 days, and to heavy work within seven to 60 days. The range was even wider after repair of a groin hernia in men over 50: from seven to 84 days for light work, 20 to 180 for heavy. By contrast, patients in the Air Force zoomed back into the wild blue yonder only 13 days (average) after appendectomy, 17 days after hernia repair. Naval recruits went back to the full rigors...
...Operated for hernia on a girl of three months, although "there was no indication of need for surgery...
...disagrees with Smith is Dr. Thomas Richard Early, 30, another member of U.C.L.A.'s first graduating class. Early is just finishing a fruitful year of internship at San Diego Naval Hospital, during which he has worked up to 105 hours a week, delivered 50 babies, done 23 hernia operations, snipped 21 appendices and twelve sets of tonsils-altogether 178 operations under supervision of a senior doctor. Early, a down-to-earth son of a South Dakota wheat farmer, has no interest in specializing, feels that good medicine depends on knowing the patients and that the best way to know...
Tribute to a Bad Man (M-G-M). "A wrangler is a nobody on a horse . . . with bad teeth, broken bones, a double hernia and lice." The self-description sits James Cagney, the bad man of the title, like Cagney sits a horse. The actor is now 52, but what a hoss-bustin', man-killin', skirt-rippin', jug-totin' buckaroo he can still believably pretend to be. He runs horses on his range, hangs rustlers from his trees, and keeps the home fires burning with a plenty hot number (Irene Papas) who smokes wicked little black...