Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tugging open all those empty refrigerators for Westinghouse hardly gave her a meat-and-potatoes background for her new job. Indeed, onetime TV Pitchgirl Betty Furness, 51, was as surprised as anyone when President Johnson appointed her his $26,000-a-year Special Assistant on Consumer Affairs, replacing Mrs. Esther...
Ironically, two more of nature's mistakes kept Betty going. There were two small holes in the septum (wall) between the two upper chambers of her heart, allowing partly oxygenated blood to pass through. And the ductus arteriosus, which supplies a normal and necessary connection between aorta and pulmonary...
Somehow Betty survived-always short of breath and often blue in the face from oxygen starvation. She finished high school, married, got a real-estate and insurance broker's license and ran her business from a spic-and-span home. After several miscarriages, she raised an adopted daughter. But...
"Like Being Reborn." Last month Betty Vanella celebrated her 37th birthday at home in San Jose, Calif. She was a robust 104 Ibs. and announced that she was going to take up golf and swimming. Her lips and fingernail beds were a healthy pink, thanks to a full supply of...
The rebirth had taken place on an operating table in San Francisco's Presbyterian Medical Center just a year before. Diagnostic tests which were made by threading plastic tubes through arm veins and into Betty's heart had revealed most of nature's errors. Even so, Surgeon...