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...Gerald Boucher, age 44, of South Hadley, Mass., died from rejection of his second heart after doctors at the Harvard affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the donor, a 38 year-old Connecticut nurse who died in an accident, gave him a $57,000 new lease on life 10 months...
...heirs-Boucher, Pater, Lancret-would embody rococo. But Watteau died in 1721, just over a year before Louis XV was crowned. Thus the artist whose feathery trees and pastoral scenes of gallantry seem the very essence of rococo sensibility only reached the edge of the rococo. His time was that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. If the intimacy of his art seems so far from the bemusing pomp of Versailles, it is partly because his imitators lagged; it took time to convert the scenography of Watteau's fugitive, shadowed mind into a system of decor suitable...
...speedskating, Gaetan Boucher, winner of two golds and a bronze, led Canada in song. Counting a silver medal won in Lake Placid (a second to Heiden, nearly as good as a gold), Boucher is the most successful Olympian in his country's history. "Keep going, I told my legs in the 1500," he said. "I started hurting at 300 meters. It was strictly guts." Canadians had invested meager hope in their hockey team, which lost 16 times in 19 exhibition games leading up to the Olympics, including...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Health has been approving heart transplants on a case-by-case basis since early January. Although Shelales was the first candidate approved at BWH, a suitable donor was first found for Boucher. Massachusetts is the only state in the country to require state approval for heart transplants...
...doctors who performed the operation--including Collins, Mudge, Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, and Dr. Robert J. Shemin--all participated in last week's transplant. Shemin transported the donor heart from Worcester in the same picnic cooler used last week to carry Boucher's new organ...