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...studied with Painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger in Paris, then moved down to the Riviera, where she rented Pablo Picasso's former apartment and tried doing modish abstractions. A few months later, she was traveling in North Africa, and there, in the squalid, poverty-stricken towns, she discovered what she wanted to do. "I began to see people in a way I had never seen them before. I put the abstractions in the bottom drawer and started painting people...
...Strips of blanket, dipped in boiling water and wrung out, eased the child's pain so that she soon fell asleep. When she woke she cried: "I want them rags that wells my legs." Sister Kenny applied more of "them rags." Soon she applied them to five more stricken children in the neighborhood. A year later she could report to her physician friend, Dr. Aeneas McDonnell, that the children had recovered without paralysis...
...pierce by John Limpert picture the death of Harvard in 1958 when a proud, but poverty-stricken University rejects an offer of $5 million on the condition that it must build "a non-sectarian chapel for the Worship of Money." This single idea is a basically funny one, but the story fails because it has no present-day point of departure. It is written as a satire, but it is impossible to tell of what...
Afterwards, Maras had still another unique battle with natural forces. He was stricken with appendicitis, and was operated on--400 miles from landl Post-operative complications almost cost Maras his life (penicillin saved it); he was assigned to shore duty shortly thereafter...
...Lucas' enthusiasm, what had happened to Billy was really no miracle. He was a victim of myasthenia gravis, a mysterious, uncommon disease which usually strikes adolescents or the elderly. Infant cases are rare, and Billy's was especially hard for the doctors to diagnose because he was stricken so soon after birth, when cerebral palsy is the likeliest explanation of symptoms such...