Word: patchings
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...friends . . . say Davy Crockett is a big fake because the Liberty Bell is still cracked. Maybe Davy didn't patch up the crack like the song says. I wish you would tell me if Davy was a real man or was he just a nobody? I think he was a good American pioneer hero the way I would like to be, but if he didn't do what he says he did, maybe I don't want to be like...
...Johns Hopkins, worked for a while as a pathologist in Panama shortly after the start of William Gorgas' antimalaria campaign; after serving as a professor at the University of California, he went to Rochester in 1921 as head of a school that was still only a bleak patch of earth. An awesome but beloved figure ("When he comes into a classroom,'' a student once said, "the silence is deafening"), he built up two great hospitals, a school of nursing, clinics for cerebral palsy and psychiatry, turned Rochester into one of the top medical centers in the nation...
...Deborah Marie and Christine Mary Andrews, 8 months, Chicago twins who were born joined at the head but can now face each other, did so happily for photographers. Both have a normal brain covering (dura mater) except for one small patch, which Christine will soon get; neither has a bony top to her skull, but they will get these at the age of four from their own ribs or hipbones...
...nightclub floor stands a lithe, confident little man with a pugnaciously protruding lower lip, a broken nose and a patch over his left eye. But blasting out of the loudspeakers at the delighted audiences come the vocal inflections of Frank Sinatra (applause), Billy Eckstine (applause), Tony Bennett (laughter), Arthur Godfrey (laughter), Bing Crosby (cheers). After the impersonations, the entertainer sings some straight songs-in a voice not so good as some of those he mimicked, but clear and sure. Then he may play the drums with the abandon of a voodoo priest...
...Start. The big turning point for Sammy Davis Jr. came after an accident six months ago that could have floored him for good: an automobile crackup in which he lost his left eye. When he turned up at Giro's soon afterwards, undaunted, and joking about his eye patch ("Gotta go now, gotta do a Hathaway shirt ad"). Sammy's comfortable popularity suddenly changed into a major fad. He was hailed by every Hollywood star from Ava to Zsa Zsa. The great ones came to weep and cheer. Less enthusiastic customers got at least one impression that...