Does an ugly face or a disfigured body help to mold an ugly character? From Homer on, poets and novelists have so contended. Some psychiatrists agree.
Last week a surgeon suggested that plastic surgery can reverse the process and make a bad man better. Dr. John F. Pick of Chicago has been testing this theory for eleven years by remolding the faces—and hence the characters, he hopes—of convicts at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary. It does not always work, Dr. Pick reports. But he assured the International College of Surgeons in Chicago that of 376 convicts released after plastic surgery, less than 1%...
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