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...adoptee met not only her birth father but also her four elder birth sisters. They were still a family--had always been one--but they had given her up as one mouth too many to feed. Then they told her that her birth mother had died of an aneurysm two weeks earlier. So how was she supposed to feel now? Joy at finding her father and her sisters? Grief at 17 years without them? Anger at being given up? Gratitude for her American parents? Horror at coming so close to and then losing her birth mother? We heard her story...
...April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died of a burst aneurysm in the abdominal aorta, Dr. Harvey veered just a bit from protocol by making a circular incision in the great man's head, removing the 2.7-lb. brain and dissecting it into 240 pieces before taking the 20th century's most important gray matter home in a glass jar filled with formaldehyde...
...messed up worse than little Elian. It's a good thing Harvard doesn't have too many nude drawing classes, since from your "found the peephole into the girls' locker room" look at Primal Scream it seems that a stationary naked person might give you an aneurysm...
DIED. SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, 70, wildly theatrical rock singer; after surgery to treat an aneurysm; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He was best known for his drunken rendition of I Put a Spell on You (1956), an underground classic replete with screams, grunts and gurgles...
DIED. GEORGE C. SCOTT, 71, raspy-voiced, imperious actor whose roles in The Hustler and Dr. Strangelove earned him Academy Award nominations, and who won and then declined an Oscar for Patton; of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm; at his home in Los Angeles. He won three Emmys and was nominated for four Tonys, but Scott's personal life was messy. He was married five times, twice to actress Colleen Dewhurst. He attributed his heavy drinking habits to a four-year stint digging graves for the Marines in Arlington National Cemetery. "I became an actor," he once said, "to escape...