Medicine: Modified Mussolinis

If a man with a Mussolini jaw is really a Milquetoast, two Mayo Clinic surgeons know how to fix him up—and will, at the drop of a knife. But he must remember the old French proverb: "One must suffer to be beautiful." For the operation is one of the most grisly in all plastic surgery.

The recipe for making little jaws out of big jaws was published last week in the American Journal of Surgery by Drs. Gordon Balgarnie New and John Bernhardt Erich. Before they operate, the doctors pull out the second bicuspids...

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