Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Threw out the first ball for the new baseball season and watched Washington upset Boston 5-2; played his first spring golf on both Burning Tree and Gettysburg Golf courses; hooked five trout while fishing at Camp David...
...Boston's Patriots' Day Marathon had its usual motley of cigar-smoking clowns, bicycle riders and beer-drinking college boys who dropped out of the race when they got to Wellesley. But after the show-offs were gone, pale, frail Franjo Mihalic, 36, a Yugoslav printer, outlegged all the other hoofers to win the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind in 2:25:54. Second: Boston's defending champion, John J. Kelley...
...operation's aftermath came the shocking discovery that Mrs. Lowman, mother of two children, had been born with only one kidney. Now she had none-and no human can stay alive without a kidney. Surgeon Reese's next swift decision was to transfer her to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where he knew that a medical team could keep her alive temporarily with an artificial kidney. Armco Steel Corp., which employs two of her brothers, flew Mrs. Lowman and Dr. Reese to Boston at once in a company...
...subjected to massive radiation that killed all her bone marrow. Her white blood corpuscle count fell from the normal 5,000 per cubic centimeter to zero. Then a kidney from a four-year-old girl (whose treatment for hydrocephalus required kidney removal) was transplanted to Mrs. Lowman. The Boston surgeons attached it to the femoral arteries and veins below the groin in her right thigh. She received a dozen marrow transfusions before and during the operation, mainly from her brothers. With her count of disease-fighting white corpuscles still at only 250 per cc., she has been kept ever since...
...curious stagger, poking in and out of book shops and record stores, where he is known for his excellent taste and frequent purchases ("I wave a flag for Wagner and Richard Strauss."). During working hours, he has handy a large green bottle of ginger ale, which Frankie, a Boston cab driver who is often at his side, manages somehow to keep cold. Mr. Eyre seldom retires until past dawn and normally is not seen about until well past time for luncheon...