which story is this?

Nils Lid Hjort nils at math.uio.no
Thu Jul 4 01:08:42 CEST 2002


Once in a while I'm asked "which story is this?" type
questions by people, accompanied by perhaps distorted
bits & pieces of memories of some Duck story they read 
30 years ago -- since they know I read Ducks and they trust 
my memory. And often I'm able to pinpoint the story.
As we know this is easier with Barks stories than with
others. 

With this particular request I must rely on the combined
knowledge & memory of this list, however. The question
which came to me is: 

"Doctor X is a medical engineer with the H hospital (in Bergen)
and takes part in the making of a new cancer treatment
machine ... He has been told by Colleague Y that his machine quite
resembles `the contraption Daisy Duck used in her
beauty parlor'."  

I immediately started to lecture Doctor Z (who is a friend 
of Doctor X) about WD's Comics & Stories #308 from May 1966, 
where Donald enjoys some rare success with his Salon de Charm,
how he masterfully treated Mrs. J. Crowsfoot Dryskin of 
Turkeyneck-on-the-Mohawk before having his business
seriously threatened by April, May & June, etc. Then, 
when Doctor Z told Doctor X who told Colleague Y at Hospital H
about this, it was made clear to X by Y at H that 
this was NOT the story he, Colleague Y, had in mind! 
It was Daisy who used the machine, not Donald. 

So what could this be? An apocryphical non-Barks non-Strobl 
non-Murry story? 

As usual, eternal fame for the most accurate answer. 

Nils Lid Hjort



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