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Tuesday, January 14, 2003Pious and churchgoing as a kid (he's still both), he was also a bit of a hell-raiser -- a duality he dealt with by enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1965. He got out in 1968 after serving in Okinawa and went to work as an illustrator of military magazines at the Pentagon. One day, upset because his parking space was so far from the building, he forged a special permit and began parking up close with the generals. Someone turned him in, and at the trial the judge called him to the bench and whispered: "Damn good forgery." Two weeks later, the CIA called. And now he’s doing work like this: One of Barron's most challenging feats was helping Zahida Parveen, a pregnant Pakistani mother of four whose jealous husband, in a 1999 spasm of "honor violence," cut off her nose and ears and poked out her eyes. With Dufresne and maxillofacial prosthodontist Michael T. Singer -- the dentist Barron is working with on Bev's nose -- he helped restore her former beauty. (She'd never see her baby, Parveen was quoted as saying, but at least the child would see her mother as almost normal.) Trivia: What famous scientist also wore a facial prosthesis? (Click here for more.) posted by Sydney on 1/14/2003 08:00:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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