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...normally spry (at 82) Massachusetts Politico James M. Curley, in Boston after breaking both shoulders in two falls within thrfee days; luscious Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, in Manhattan after an emergency operation for a crushed spinal disk; Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, 70, discharged after a brief visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital after recovering from a mild urinary tract infection; Wrest Virginia's aged (82) Democratic Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion...
...expansive ground floor of Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne looked like a specter-haunted landscape from Mars. Birdmen, ten inches tall, made up of a human thorax, bare-boned ribs and a spinal column topped by oversized beak and reptilian eyes, stared back at the spectators. A human-size Praying Mantis in female form crouched ready to spring; a Shepherd with half-decayed body tottering on three spindle legs looked more like an abandoned sheep carcass than a human figure. The reason for this nightmare in Paris last week: 82 pieces finished in the last...
...baby was suffering from a stubborn form of hydrocephalus (water on the brain): spinal fluid, collecting in his skull cavity, caused his head to enlarge and threatened to squeeze the brain so that the child's mental development would be arrested. Some hydrocephalus cases can be treated with fair success by putting a tube in the spinal canal half way down the back and draining the fluid from the brain through the spinal canal into the urinary system. But this child, son of a Philadelphia industrial technician named John W. Holter. was in a worse plight because...
...early years of the century, Surgeon William Ladd wrote a new chapter in the history of his dexterous profession by developing ways to revamp malformed intestinal and bile tracts in infants. Neurosurgeon Frank Ingraham has devised a highly ingenious method of draining the fluid in hydrocephalic children from the spinal canal to the kidneys through a polyethylene tube. Pediatrician Bronson Crothers has probed the causes of cerebral palsy, is now preparing a book with 1,000 exhaustive case histories...
Last week, aged 17 days, Gary Neil and Larry Dale Hutchens went under the knife. In mid-operation the surgeons found, as they had feared, that the tissues tying the twins together included part of their spinal canals and two sensory nerves. They made the separation anyway, confident that the severed nerves were minor ones and gratified that little blood or spinal fluid was lost in the operation. At week's end Gary and Larry were doing fine in separate cribs and the doctors gave them a good chance to live normal lives...