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Most ivory-tower plastic surgeons are concerned with correcting some of mankind's more serious deformities-not with making "cosmetic" repairs such as nose bobbing or face lifting. This attitude is too narrow and too stuffy, according to Dr. Adolph Abraham Apton of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital: anything that makes a person feel uncomfortably conspicuous leads to mental upsets and ought to be corrected if possible. Dr. Apton's motto: "Plastic surgery is a surgical method of psychotherapy...
Pure vanity is not the only motive that sends people running to the plastic surgeon. Often it's a matter of cold business. Apton cites case after case (but without mentioning names), e.g., actresses who were able to go on playing youthful roles after face lifting, while others of the same age, with unlifted faces, got only middle-aged parts or none at all; a pediatrician who had a port-wine birthmark removed from his face because it scared the kiddies; a rabbit-eared radio announcer who had to have an operation to get a job on television...
Strongly as he believes in plastic surgery, Dr. Apton warns that it should not be used in purely trifling cases, or when a patient's depression is actually rooted in something deeper. And with approval he quotes a Canadian colleague: "Scars obtained in honest toil or in battle for a righteous cause are not dishonorable. In fact . . . they should be regarded as a badge of honor...
...been wearing a football helmet to protect her head. But a helmet is hot and heavy. Karen's father, a Manhattan engineer, took a better idea to Cavanagh's, the Park Avenue hatters. Last week Karen was wearing a jaunty cap. Built with a core of laminated plastic, it gives just as much protection as the helmet, and everybody, including Karen, thinks it is a lot more becoming. The United Cerebral Palsy Association is spreading the news of Karen's new cap (cost: about $18) to member organizations across...
...Commons sit down in a group at long tables, eat from plastic plates, and take their food and drink from large platters and pitchers which are brought to the tables by the waiters. Servings are definitely limited and the meals are rather rushed--the group usually leaves in a body...