Medicine: The Saxophone Slouch

Park Avenue stylists have recently plumped for new variations of the once-famous bangs hairdo of the flapper era. Some, fashion designers happily predict a return to the slim, boyish John Held figure, a '20s favorite.

Last week Manhattan's aging, spry Dr. George B. McAuliffe, 81, a retired professor of otology who dabbles in the field of posture correction, voiced sinister warnings against the bust-flattening, underslung flapper figure which causes shifting of vital organs, general internal trouble. Dr. McAuliffe thinks American girls today are pretty good; their neat, trim figures, unhampered by unnecessary clothes,...

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