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...Department of Justice in Washington are the fingerprints, photographs, aliases and nicknames of 7,052,061 U. S. malefactors. Surest of these four keys to the identity of criminals are fingerprints which differ even in identical twins, but even fingerprints are not foolproof. The late John Dillinger had a plastic surgeon mutilate his fingertips with acid but failed to obliterate their prints because the job was poorly done (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The finger prints of another recent murderer, John Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton was effected because...
Upon hearing that an eyeless baby was born in Washington last week, officials of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital revealed that they are building an artificial socket for an artificial eye in the head of a one-eyed baby. Plastic operations began 18 months ago when the baby, a blue-eyed blonde, was 18 months old. Surgeons first slit the skin where her second eye should have been and reamed out a cavity. When this healed, surgeons lined the cavity with mucous membrane taken from the inner surfaces of her cheeks. In the next few days the surgeons expect...
...Chinese ear question was put to the Customs Bureau by Eli Lilly & Co., which stated that it had arranged to buy in China three pairs of ears needed in its Indianapolis laboratories in connection with some experiments in plastic surgery by Shanghai-born Dr. Ko Kuei Chen, Lilly's famed director of pharmacological research. When newshawks sought out Lilly's Dr. Chen, all he would say was that he was working on a hunch "which may or may not prove successful...
After service in the navy, John Held, Jr., really went to work, From his drawing board streamed the young figures of the Plastic Age: flappers with as many frills showing as burlesque girls reveal in the early stages of the strip tease, vaseline-haired youths with bell-bottomed trousers, varsity sweaters and ukuleles. The drawings made Held famous. In 1928 he became a writer. As was to be expected, the titles of his books were Grim Youth, Frenetic and Johnny, Women Are Necessary, and the like...
...girl of 7 stripped naked last week to show a group of local doctors how new treatments for burns had saved their lives. Immediately after their accidents, both had been bathed in tannic acid and silver nitrate. This treatment, which Portland's Plastic Surgeon Adalbert G. Bettman invented (TIME, March 18, 1935), "leatherized'' the burned areas and enabled healing to start...