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Three olympic champions
pp. 115-135
in: Waltervon Baeyer, Richard M. Griffith (eds), Conditio humana, Berlin, Springer, 1966Abstract
While accompanying the United States Olympic athletes to Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, I noted that one of the most distinuished members of the track and field team, Harold V. Connolly, U. S. champion and world record holder in hammer throwing, was afflicted with a combined upper and lower left brachial plexus paralysis (Erb-Duchenne-Klumpke-Dejerine type).