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Else K. LaRoe, a Manhattan plastic surgeon, well knows how much discomfort women will stand in order to have a good figure, or even the illusion of one. She herself is a small, trim, exuberantly vivacious blonde in her forties. She claims to have lifted many faces, corrected many double chins, eye pouches, rolls of body fat. But her specialty is the woman with a "bust problem." She has now collected much of her experience in a book, The Breast Beautiful (Field; $2.50). Few doctors will consider it important, but to women its subject is of perennial interest...
Drop a dime in a Soundies (the word apparently has no singular form) and you see a three-minute film, with musical accompaniment, projected on the box's 24-by-18-inch plastic screen. The $695 box is designed to hold 1,000 ft. of 16-mm. film, made for Mills by James Roosevelt's Globe Productions in Hollywood. There is no direct corporate connection between Mills and Globe. But the film will be leased to box owners, at $17.50 per reel for the first week, less later, by a projected Soundies Distributing Corp. of America...
...veterinary medicine is dog and cat beautification. Dr. Alan C. Secord of Toronto corrects buck teeth in dogs with wire braces, like those worn by children. Dr. Hadley Carruthers Stephenson of Cornell said that dogs may develop cauliflower ears by "scrubbing" their itching ears on the ground. Remedy: plastic surgery...
...Duchess of Windsor is 44 years old, has a large mole on the right side of her chin and jowls that are beginning to sag. Last week, as the royal pair sailed for the Bahamas, Manhattan newspapers reported that the Duchess would stop in the U. S. for a plastic operation on her face. Whether she intended to have her mole clipped, her nose cropped or her face lifted, no one could say. She had reputedly engaged rooms at Manhattan's Wickersham Hospital for the second week in September. Her surgeon was to be Dr. Irving Daniel Shorell...
...Shorell claims that his operation is unique, for most plastic surgeons, he says, only tighten skin, pay little attention to sagging muscles, thus leave their patients with a masklike expression. Face-lifting is done under a local anesthetic, lasts about an hour and a half, is practically bloodless. Patients usually leave the hospital in four days, some of them wearing hats with veils or scarves tied under the chin to hide the scars. Only painful part of the operation is the bill, which may run anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000, depending on what a patient...