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Along with simple explanations, Truman prescribes simple drawings. A swollen, inflamed appendix is easy to sketch on a prescription pad, and so is the operation of cutting it off. "Perhaps," says Truman (no Vesalius), "the less artistic you are the better you can illustrate for the patient...
...letter to the Detroit Free Press was signed by an indignant resident of nearby Litchfield. He wanted the paper to know that something peculiar was going on in his town. The school superintendent, he said, was ordering teachers to pad their class records with the names of pupils they had never seen. The writer thought the paper ought to investigate...
...insulation materials. Son of a Methodist minister, Rassweiler worked his way through the University of Denver, got his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Illinois, worked for Du Pont, went to Johns-Manville as research director in 1941, where he developed numerous new products, including the insulating pad used on bazookas to protect the firer's face from burns. As vice chairman, Rassweiler skipped right over Johns-Manville's presidency, which became vacant last week with the retirement of Robert W. Lea. J-M's new president: Leslie M. Cassidy, 46, formerly vice president...
...bridge, but on the French side the check point is set just far enough back to leave the local gambling house in no man's land. When a new game of fantan or mah-jongg is about to begin, gamblers from the Chinese side quickly pad over the bridge without having to pass the French check point. Every afternoon at 3 o'clock Tonghing's postman comes across to collect the mail. China's postal service there is so bad that many Tonghingers, and even people as far away as Canton, have their mail addressed...
...lean little sparrow hawk of a man, sharp-beaked, with bright hazel eyes, Menaboni roams the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a .410 shotgun, a camera, traps and a sketch pad (he has special state and federal permits to collect two of each species a year for his pictures). Whenever possible, Menaboni draws his birds from life, to get the action right, sometimes dispatches them to do the plumage. The fact that he can keep them fresh in a refrigerator, he says, is a big advantage that Audubon would have appreciated. Another and greater advantage is his ability...