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Last week this spectacular operation, exemplifying advances in plastic surgery in World War II, was described to the American College of Surgeons in Cleveland by Milwaukee's Surgeon William H. Frackelton, one of those who worked on the hand. For the 5,000 surgeons, attending their first postwar meeting, it was an exciting session. Wartime improvements in surgery had helped save 96% of the wounded, and there was progress to report all along the line. Some reports...
...surgeons have tried patching with a length of metal tube, transplanted blood vessels, etc.-without great success. Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel of Harvard Medical School described a new patch that he thinks may fill the bill (it worked well on dogs). His invention: a tube of lucite, the glasslike plastic. Attached to separated ends of the aorta, a lucite patch lets the blood flow freely without clotting, becomes firmly attached to the artery, can be left in the body permanently...
Copey will make his traditional Christmas reading to undergraduates for the first time in five years from a plastic disk tonight at 8:30 o'clock as the Crimson Network presents a half-hour transcription of a recital by now-legendary Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus...
Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...
Surgery of Repair. For a badly smashed leg, amputation used to be the regular thing. But Chicago's Surgeon John F. Pick reported that during World War II "an extraordinary number of legs were saved" by plastic surgery. At eight U.S. Army plastic surgery centers, surgeons used new grafting methods (given names like "pincushion flap," "bridge flap") to clothe blasted legs with new flesh, and reduced amputations almost to nil. Said Surgeon Pick: "We are in a great transition from the surgery of despair to the surgery of repair...