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by JOSEPH STOCKER
riey come to this Los Angeles businessman
with hooknoses, receding chins, and scars; he
dips into' his wallet to right nature's errors
Every once in a while somebody
bounces into the office of Stanley
S. Slotkin, a Los Angeles businessman,
and asks, "How do you like my new
nose?" or, "What do you think of my
new chin?" The questions may sound
strange but not to Slotkin. It was he
who made the new features possible.
In the past dozen years, Slotkin has
arranged and financed at least par
tially about 1,500 operations involving
plastic surgery. It's his favorite hobby
and a godsend to the people whose lives
have been transformed along with their
appearance. They come to Slotkin with
hooknoses, receding chins, harelips,
conspicuous birthmarks, pockmarks,
and acne scars. Some have no money for
an operation; some have a little but not
enough. It doesn't matter. If plastic sur
gery can help them, Slotkin helps pay
whatever bills have to be paid.
His reward? Nothing but satisfaction
the kind that comes from cases like
that of eight-year-old Joe.
When Slotkin first knew him, Joe was
a very unhappy kid because his ears
stuck out. The boys called him "Elephant
Ears" or "Airplane Wings."
The reaction in Joe was one of exces
sive belligerence. He picked fights and
became the school outlaw.
Joe's parents couldn't afford the
operation to straighten his ears, but they
heard about Stanley Slotkin. He agreed
to underwrite the surgery.
Ten days after the operation, when
Joe went back to school, his ears lay
neatly against the sides of his head.
Slotkin saw him a few days later.
"Well Joe," he asked, "what happened
at school?"
"Nothing," said Joe.
"Nothing at all?"
"Nope. Well, yes, something happened.
I was playing with the boys, and the girls
came over and talked to me."
Those few words revealed that Joe
was an outlaw no longer. He had been
given what he needed acceptance.
Stanley Slotkin, a lean, intense' busi
nessman of 52, was led into his hobby by
a Christmas happenstance in the mid
1940s. He had a secretary named Betty
an efficient but homely girl who was
introverted and unhappy. One day Slot
kin asked, "Betty, what would you like
for Christmas?" The reply jolted him.
"Mr. Slotkin, I'd like a new face!"
Only then did Slotkin fully realize
how unattractive Betty was. He decided,
insofar as it lay within his power and
the power of medical science, to give her
what she wanted for Christmas.
After the operation, Slotkin and his
wife brought Betty into their home for
her convalescence. When she was fully
recovered, they took her to a hairdresser
and then to a dress shop. With some new
clothes, her new hairdo, and especially
her new face, Betty was radiantly at
tractive. Slotkin lost a secretary when
Betty married a few months later, but
he gained a philanthropy.
Each morning at 11 o'clock, he inter
views anybody who wants to see him
about getting a new face. Of the 1,500
transformations Stanley Slotkin has
made possible, which is his favorite?
"The one I did yesterday," he says.
Slotkin doesn't get to see all the people
he has given new faces. Some of his
"patients" come to his office to say
thanks, but many others cannot trust
themselves to hold their emotions in
check, and they express their gratitude
in letters. It doesn't matter to him
whether he receives expressions of
gratitude from people he has helped.
"They don't have to thank me," he
says. "I'm just an intermediary between
God and the doctor."
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The above photos strikingly illustrate what plastic surgery
can do to give people a new lease on life. The hero behind
many such miracles is Stanley S. Slotkin (top picture) who
has financed 1,500 of these operations in the past 12 years.
Family Weekly, December 13, 1959
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