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Short weeks before, the skinny, crew-cut teen-ager seemed beyond medical help. Fred Wallace was literally bleeding to death. And the doctors at Baylor University Medical Center seemed powerless to help. They gave heroic round-the-clock care, a record number of transfusions (932 pints of blood and plasma), and still Fred's life dripped steadily away. Then, suddenly, he got better. As he hobbled out of the hospital on his crutches last week and headed for his home in Muskogee, Okla., a team of dedicated physicians and surgeons was still wondering how an ordinary case of hemophilia...
...Fred and his father had walked away from their parked car so that Fred might snap a picture. Inexplicably, the car started rolling downhill toward the boy. His father lunged to shove him clear. Fred was unharmed, but his father was killed. A few months later Fred was in Baylor Hospital with much more routine trouble: bleeding inside his knees. The familiar hemophilic difficulty had caused the joints to swell and stiffen; surgeons had to cut them open to clean them out. Transfusions helped Fred to recover, and, just as it does with most bleeders, the temporary supply...
...opening seconds of the last quarter, Cousy suffered an ankle injury, and members of the Boston press were getting their "They won it for Cooz" stories ready for the morning papers. Four minutes later the Celtics were holding on for their lives, after Elgin Baylor, Dick Barnett, and Jerry West had sparked LA and narrowed the score...
...Lakers' Jerry West and Elgin Baylor tallied 32 and 28 points respectively, and were the game's high scorers. For Boston it was naturally a team victory; Tom Heinsohn paced the Celts with 22, but it was Bill Russell's fantastic rebounding that gave Boston the victory...
...Elgin Baylor and Jerry West paced the Laker victory; Baylor scored 43 points and West finished the game with 32. Baylor made a key basket in the final period which put Los Angeles ahead to stay. The Lakers had trailed the Celtics by five points at the start of the fourth quarter...