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You have to observe the men carefully to notice any irregularities in walking. It’s a tossup, in my mind, whether this is .because of the qgoduct or the fact that each of the three men has been wearing wooden legs for more than 25 years. Stanley Hedges, the boss, and Robert Tapp and Ernest Blevins say it's the product. Never saw guys who were so eager to pull up their trpuser legs. ©
A MAN ON his first visit to an artificial limb company finds himself bubbling with questions. The first one I had was about volume of business. You don’t expect artificial limbs to sell like ice cream cones, : Joe Garoffolo, the firm's corrective therapist, answered by quoting Dr. Howard A. Rusk, department of rehabilitation and physical medicine, at New. York University College of Medicine. Dr. Rusk estimates there are 400,000 amputees in the United States and this figure is increased annually by 40,000. Mr: Hedges hasn't had to worry about customers for a good many years. Every artificial limb, whether it's a leg or an arm, is custom built. The limb makers and Mr. Garoffolo work closely with a patient's physician,
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“THERE ARE plastic, metal and wooden limbs on the market. The local firm specializes in wooden appliances. It's the Rowley leg, for wearing and selling at Indianapolis ‘Arfificial Limb Corp. I assumed, after seeing the men's legs a couple of dozen times, they were plastic. They look, sound, feel like a synthetic material. That's why the lumber on the shelves was confusing. A Rowley limp is made from willow.
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It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, May 28—I've never been a guy to bring my wife home a present. But, after seeing the success of the Greer Garson-Buddy Fogelson marriage maybe I'll become a convert. Just so the practice won't be taken too seriously, they refer to the presents as “prezzies” and pretend to be surprised when they get any—which seems to be constantly. The other day Miss Garson and her mother had arrived back in the hotel suite ahead of Mr. Fogleson. They’d been shopping. The large box wds ready for j Mr. Fogleson when he came in. “What's this—a prezzy?” he asked. “Sleep coats,” Miss Garson explained to me. They are those little bedroom coats that come down to a gént’s knee or thereabouts. “You looked like a rumpled Romeo yesterday,” Miss Garson told her husband. vid a > & IT WAS HIS turn. He brought out a box for her. ( “Oh, a prezzy for me?” she said excitedly. Brought out of the box, it turned out to be a beautiful religious medal, that of St. Genesius, the patron saint of actors, acroSats and musicians. “That's my boy,” Miss Garson exclaimed with a proud nod at her husband.: “I shall put it
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right on.” : Mr. Fogelson brought out still another package. “Another prezzy?” said Miss Garson ecstatically.
“Yeh, I blew my top. But that’s all for you today,” her husband said. BB THEN AS SHE UNWRAPPED still arother gift, Mr. Fogelson moved around the room, takIng pictures of the guests with his Polaroid, until finally he said, “Well, Rusty, you must excuse me now, but the old man must get his nap.” But he didn’t get it until he had been teased a little about Texas. Miss Garson said she had been talking to a producer about doing a Broadway
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, May 27—One of the things that must puzzle the public in this year of fevered politicking is the administration's stubborn track record of appointing fairly smudgy personnel to high posts, over what seems common sense. : Naturally, the Democrats were aware that Newbold Morris was implicated in that swift tankerturnover deal when they sent him to Washington to investigate the. Justice Department. The political thinking most certainly was that Sir Galahad’s connection with the smelly ship transaction would shift the heat from Mr. Newbold’s investigation and turn it back on him. But with Newbold fired and Howard McGrath fired for fir- - ing Newbold, so to speak, it would seem to a semilogical mind that, for once, Harry S. would scout around for a couple of candidates for.the Justice Department, so free of association with any but the Boy Scouts, that not even the Republicans could holler with any justification. “o Woh
BUT THE STENCH" of the Amerasia case follows Judge James P. McGranery to his fresh appointment to succeed Howard McGrath, and there is other evidence of his judicial handling of - criminal cases sufficient to cause some screams from. the opposition. Maybe the new boss of - Justice is the best legal head unhung, but the opposition to his appointment was plenty, and a new quarrel sprouts on the hill. Under Judge McGranery, in the No. 2 job, is a guy named Devitt Vanech, who seems to have spent most of his early adult life trying unsuecessfully to pas bar exams. There is some cloud on his passage of the Tennessee bar. Again, maybe this is the greatest lawyer since Clarence Darrow, but the room for alarums and excursions is still there on the two. top boys in the big lawenforcement foundry. > OS 2 OVER THE YEARS it seems to. me that Truman has almost maliciously attempted to stretch the public patience with suspect appointees. His determined fight to put Ed Pauley in as Secretary of the Navy and his sponsorship of Mon Wallgren are two other examples, apart, he has clung stubbornly to his cronies, until actual criminal prosecution has forced the retirement of some and complete national indignation .has caused the dismissal of others. I should hate to believe that the President of the United States is dumb enough to do some of the things he has done in the past six years, or arrogant enough to believe that the country will stomach all his actions. The appointment of William O'Dwyer as Ambassador to Mexico, when +. Bill was In process of fleeing the heat of a corruption Investigation of New York, still remains
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buy sections of choice willow limbs. The wood is seasoned eight to 10 years. Mr. Blevins joked that the reason is they want to make absolutely sure’ a leg won't sprout shoots in rainy weather. Robert Tapp and Ernest-can build an artificial limb from willow Hmb to wearer. Usually, however, Robert does the cutting and shaping and fitting and leather work. Ernest does the adjusting, . balancing, finishing and assembling. Wo Bh J MR. GAROFFOLO starts the process of a new limb by taking exact measurements of a patient's stump. The next step is making the foot block, ankle joint, toe joint, shin pieces and socket, where the stump fits in. Finally the fittings and corset are attached. The patient is ready for the first adjustments When it is fitted properly, ‘shaping is com pleted and it is rawhided, sanded and finished. The type of rawhide used for banjos is used to cover the wood. It is soaked in water, stretched over the wood and allowed to dry. Makes a tough, strong, durable surface. : A customer can get a below-the-knee limb in three weeks from the time it is ordered. An above-the-knee limb, which is more complicated, takes four weeks to build. Mr. Hedges said an amputee, once he reaches the point where he is resigned to an artificial limb and wants one, must have that motivation maintained. :
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1852 © © PAGE 15
THINK WAR'S ABOUT OVER NOW—
Cicero Is Proud Of Its General
By LLOYD BR. WALTON Times Staff Writer
CICERO, -Ind., May 28Most of the 1200 residents. of this Hamilton County town think.the truce talks in Korea are nearing a solution. They decided this last when a home-town boy, Brig. Gen . 8 Frank C. McConnell, was named a member of the United Nations armistice delegation. The general was chosen by Gen Mark Clark, supreme Far East United Nations commander, to replace Vice Adm. Turner Joy on the truce team. Adm. Joy will become superin-
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THE FOUR MEN are acutely aware of the problems an amputee has. Mr. Garoffolo worked with amputees at Billings Hospital for fivé years and one year in the Navy. They don’t keep any«0ne waiting longer than necessary.
“I wouldn't have a limb maker who wasn't an tendent of‘ the United States ’ aa amputee,” said Mr. Hedges. “I feel Ernest and Naval Academy at Annapolis £4 Bob put more into their work because they know , =o COMMISSIONED — 2d Lt. TRUCE NEGOTIATOR
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what the other fellow’s problems are going.to be and are.” It’s something to see the men walk past the practice ramps and supports-—-where Mr. Garoffolo teaches gait, balance and length of stepswithout giving them a second glance. Artificial limbs, formidable problems to some, are part of others: Man can do a“out anything, if he wants to, can't he?
Brig. Gen. McConnell.
Cicero's Main St. which normally. basks lazily in the May sunshine, the scene of small, buzzing groups of townsmen gathering fo talk about “Charlie McConnell's boy who gave up farming to join the Army § just after the first World War." » ” “WE'RE GLAD he's done so good in the Army,” said his Aunt Grace Burris as she stopped dressing a big chicken for dinner. “It seems like only yesterday since he was a little tike running around in the yard. “Why I can remember so plain when he was only 3 years| old. I stayed with his folks when| Dorothy (Frank's sister) was from Purdue in 1920 and returned born. Little Frank was toddling|to the farm to help his dad. | {Frank came home for her funeral.”
| After about a year of farming, around out in the yard WeRting te decided he ant eut out tol “The first thing we knew about
one of his mother’s sun bonnets yo a farmer and accepted a 2d and carying a stick he'd picked Lieutenant's commission in the] - | Army. The commission was a re-|hI8 new: job was the other morn{sult of ‘his taking advanced |ing when we were eating break-
up. He chased after the little ducks, Niiting at them with thelgous why at Purdue. [fast, Clark (Frank's uncle) alan ways has the radio turned on
switch and yelling—*“Atch out, : | THAT SAME year (1921) help.) pos in the house but don't
ducky.” i | W t { Frank graduated from Sheri married Paulena Scott from pay much attention to it. “We were just sitting there
¥ * ur Frank he's talking about,”| “I REMEMBER one time Frank and ran in the living room to anq his folks were visiting us iear the rest of it." jand our mothers fixed our lunch Mrs. Pauline Long, Aunt hetore we went to school. There Grace's sister who lives east of wax too much of it to put in one Cicero, said, “I just jumped package, so they put the sand. straight” up in the air when Iiwiches in one sack and the desheard Frank's name on the gert in another. Frank liked pie radio.” / and bananas real well so. I thought I'd be nice to him and let him have all.the dessert while I ate the sandwiches. I reckon it was too mueh for him. Frank got'sick as a dog. “Frank's dad had some prize pigs he was getting ready to sell and he wanted Frank and me to put them in a pen while he went iinto town to take care of some business, We did all right until one of the pigs got away from us and -got out in a pasture, We chased the pig all over before wa caught it and carried it back to the barn. “The pig got too hot from so much running and died before we could do anything for it. Charlie wasn't’ a bit pleased-—sald we should have known better, “Since Frank has been appointed to his new job,” Mr. McCone nell added, “there have been any ° number of people dropping into the bank or calling to ask me what relation I am to him.
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HOWARD HIATT leaned against a store front on Main St. and drawled, “Yep, I remember Frank. Why I was born and raided within a mile of his folks' place, I tended a field of corn for his dad one year. “I didn’t know where he'd got to since he left here.’til the other day when I heard the boys talking about him.” A. A. “Gus” Faulstich, architect and engineer in Cicero, leaned back in his easy chair and chewed dreamily on a battered pipe. “Most of the folks around here idon’t remember “Frank too well because he left so long ago,” he sald. “But they all know his folks, and if Frank's anything like them he'll sure do a good job.” Frank's cousin, Walter MeConnell, has the clearest memories of him. Walter is executive vice president of the Wainwright Bank & Trust Co. in Noblesville.
‘Prezzies’ Secret Of This Marriage
play. The producer wondered if she could get Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s permission, “Then I also have to get Fogelson's permission,” Miss Garson said, explaining that her husband has many business interests in Texas “Is he another one of those Texans who are always bragging about Texas but never in Texas?” the producer asked. As a matter of fact, Mr. Fogelson hesitates to speak the‘truth about some of his activities, just so nobody’ll think he’s bragging, and he spends a lot of time in his home state. “You should look over the state again,” Miss Garson told him. “All these young men with their shiny diplomas and their brides and shiny babies . . . (She has taken quite a shine to the place). They are all keen to get into the most exciting crap game in the world,” Miss Garson went on. “There is something about the gallantry of the men, too, and the women have bloomed under it \ . .”
FUTURE GENERAL—Frank McConne 3-month-old sister, Dorothy.
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MISS GARSON has meanwhile become an g4., High School before entering Greencastle.
“expert” on livestock. “Give a redhead an inch Purdue to study agriculture | “We -dont’ know very much! pt: : - : . " “ . : . talking when a news announcer, “I'm five older than| “And knowing Frank the wa and she'll take a mile and a half,” she aid. “You He was always an A-1 stu-|about him since he went to the gtnriaq saying something about Frank” he sald. “But we used|I do, I think he wil try to ry should see. my articles in ‘The Beef Breeder's gent in school,” Aunt Grace Army” his aunt said. “Frank Brig. Gen. Frank McConnell fromito chum around together when things to a head over there as Gazette’ and ‘The Short Horn World. added. never was much for writing. All/Cicero. Clark said, “Why that's we were kids.
It was all because she determined that on their ranch, Forked Lightning, she wanted all white stock, including white ducks, turkeys, pigeons, etc. She had an offer some white hippopotami, but didn't know how the West would take to that, and vice versa. “Everything was white except the cat, who wouldn’t co-operate but had a calico litter,” Miss Garson said. In the midst of all this, Miss Garson was asked by Hollywood to go on one of those movies-are-better-than-ever tours. She and Mr. Fogelson went through New York State with’ the gang, and she said: “We went from town to town without stopping to. titivate., It was wonderful, though.” Now that she’s been on tour and in New York for a while, Greer the Cow Girl wanted to do a play, she wanted to do a movie if she could find the right one, she wanted to go on with that allwhite herd.
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WHILE CHILPREN SLEPT—
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* SO WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The biggest worry of a doting father is usually a dating daughter.”— Winnie Garrett.
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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “It's funny,” says Ethel Smith, “That a woman who cries at the
drop of a hat will usually stop at the purchase of one.”
Harry's Appointments Leave Bob Wondering
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MR. TRUMAN'S record of outrageous and at times wholly baffling statements still puzzle us as the actions of an intelligent operator in office. The “red-herring” business, the “eyewash” business, the censorship business, the seizure of industry business, the summary firing of Douglas MacArthur business—in fact, most of the vital Harry Truman business still confounds me as a simple ‘thinker. . Harry 8. is certainly a man beset by grave responsibility, and as such jis prone to irritation, to mistakes, to errors in judgment. But he is supposed tg be, of all things, a canny politician, and, 80 help me, Hannah, the mass of his action woud not have become a petty ward heeler. Nobody expects him to be a genius at world diplomacy, but you would have thought to credit him with the simple ciphers of basic political expediency. © o THE ENORMITY of the blunders committed in high office are measurable by the fact that the average cab driver talks politics to you now, instead of .baseball. A keen and pretty accurate interest in Washington and the year’s elections has simmered down to levels of public interest I never noticed before. I cannot think that this much impact on the common consciousness was engineered by intelligent political administration. There has got to be a word for the way Harry has run his show, and I'm afraid the word is stupid.
5 Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—Care of a carnation—a plant with 50 buds, looks spindly. What kind of fertilizer? What kind of soil? Mrs. F, J. C. A—S8pindly growth means unbalanced plant food. Give your plant an emergency treatmert of fertilizer solution, Use one of the -soluble
A FEW FEET FROM DEATH-——Children slept peacefully in this ward in Rotary Home on Sept. I1, 1946, anaware murder stalked the hall. Fingerprints found at the scene have been matched to a Kentucky prisoner,
TELLTALE PRINTS—A campus policeman points to the wine dow trough which the slayer fled and where telltale fingerprints were Touna, ’
innumerable trade names. Ask your dealer for
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times
one high in phosphate. ‘Do not disturb your plant now when it is about to bloom. In the fall you f It needs both good drainage and plenty of water. You can meet both these conditions. First, use plenty of water holding materials in the soil mixture you fix for it.
SLAYING SCENE—Here's where the sixiyear rail started, with Michael Kavanagh locking over the doorway where Nurse Green was struck
MURDER WEAPON—This stick was found two days after. the slaying with bits of Nurse Alberta Green's hairnet still clinging toit. ’ se :
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