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Before noon, several truckloads of birthday presents, corridors of flowers, eight big sacks of mail, were accumulating at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Mamie Eisenhower, first in to see her husband on his 65th birthday, gave him a plastic easel equipped with boxes for brushes and paints. Major John Eisenhower's choice was a set of Autobridge, enabling the President to play all four hands in turn. From the President's grandchildren came a book of crossword puzzles, another book called 150 Ways to Play Solitaire, and a phonograph record of a monologue, What It Was, Was Football...
...Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital last week, plastic surgeons removed the dressings from the face of a 23-year-old Japanese girl named Shigeko Niimoto and noted with satisfaction that her extensive skin graft had been an almost perfect take. The contours of the girl's face were almost normal again...
...other Mt. Sinai rooms and in a dozen Quaker households near Manhattan, 24 other young Japanese women were waiting their turn to undergo plastic surgery, some for the second or third time. They all had one thing in common: ten years ago they were on the streets of Hiroshima within a mile of ground zero on the day the first atom bomb was dropped...
Next step will be to build a voice-powered receiver. It will store up voice-electricity while the speaker is talking, then use it to pick up the answer while he is listening. Bryan believes that the entire outfit can be tucked into a plastic container no bigger than a matchbox. Mass-produced cost...
...questionable who made the most off the seventh annual Harvard-Columbia contest the long-shot artists who bet the Crimson might actually win by as much as 14 points, or the sealpers who sold cheap plastic raincoats for twice their value among 13,000 rain-groggy spectators...