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Last week surgeons at New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn described an antiseptic suture that seems to be just what Lister was looking for. Dr. Harry H. LeVeen and colleagues reasoned that if old-fashioned silk suture thread offers hiding places for germs, it will also have room to absorb a fair amount of antibacterial chemical. After swelling the silk to make it still more absorbent, they soaked it in a preparation of benzethonium, a modern, potent germ killer. Then they tested the sutures in mice, and got 100% protection against infection for at least five days...
...better pro prospect, say some scouts, is Alabama's Ken ("Snake") Stabler, who is 3 in. taller than Beban, completed 60% of his passes in the tough Southeastern Conference. Stabler is an oddity because he is lefthanded, but the pros like his strong arm, quick release and thread-needle accuracy...
...Austria well, and the Viennese victims, fence sitters, Nazi bullyboys, happy collaborators and German overlords are all convincing enough for documentary purposes. Almost predictably, her heroine, a famous actress, has a Jewish husband, and the terrifying things that happen when she hides him in a dummy room keep a thread of suspense...
...Whitman. He takes enormous risks in his wriitng. He likes to quote Randolph Bourne: "The trouble with American culture is that the American artist is never allowed to make any mistakes. Poets today are afraid of gambling." He adds thoughtfully, "You have to get out on the edge and thread that very thin line between the predictable and the impossible, the ordinary and the ridiculous...
...water-skiing elephant and a piano-playing dog. For many years, his scout on the Chicago vaudeville circuit was the late Poet Carl Sand burg. "He got us the Australian woodchopper act," says Sullivan proudly, "and the fellow who stitches his fingers together with a needle and thread...