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...DeBakey speaks with singular authority. Since 1948, the dexterous scalpel and deft needle of Baylor University's professor of surgery have operated on more than 10,000 human hearts and arteries. From the far corners of the earth the great and the humble have traveled to Texas to have Surgeon DeBakey patch up their arteries with Dacron or implant artificial valves of plastic and sophisticated alloys in their hearts...
Wartime service in the Army surgeon general's office gave Colonel DeBakey a chance to become an exacting critic of the quality of surgery, and in 1948 he moved to Houston with misgivings. Baylor's College of Medicine was just sorting itself out from the shambles of a wartime move from Dallas, and it was difficult to find a hospital surgical service with enough patients for DeBakey's practice and teaching. But he found a powerful ally in a retiring millionaire, Ben Taub, and soon got a major hospital program rolling. DeBakey and Taub are still fast...
Johnson's boyhood interest in schooling came by family tradition: his father had taught in two one-room country schools in Texas, and his mother, who was the granddaughter of a Baylor University president, had taught classes in "expression" in Fredericksburg, Texas, and later in her home. In 1912, when Lyndon was four, she taught him to read simple primers ("I see the cow") in their Texas hill-country home. Then she sent him trudging a mile down a ranch road, lunch pail in hand, to Kate Deadrich's one-room tin-covered Junction school, where rules were...
...smashed the old world record with a toss of 69 ft. ¾in., Texas A. & M.'s Randy Matson, 20, threw the 16-lb. metal ball five times, each time topping 67 ft. His longest put established a fantastic new record of 70 ft. 7 in. Sighed Baylor University Coach Clyde Hart: "One day, we'll see Matson peel off his A. & M. warm up suit, and underneath he'll have on a cape and a big S on his chest. Then he'll fly away, and we'll wonder whether we really...
Each year, about 7,000 American babies less than a year old die of inborn heart defects. "Eighty percent of these infants could be saved by surgery," says Baylor University's Pediatrician Dan G. McNamara. The trouble is, Dr. McNamara told an international meeting on the heart and circulation of the newborn, that not enough physicians are trained to detect the sometimes subtle signs that a "cranky" baby may actually have severe deformities of the heart or major blood vessels...