Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Millicent Abigail Rogers, 53, "Standard Oil heiress." granddaughter of Croesus-rich Oil Pioneer Henry Huttleston Rogers; after an operation for removal of a brain blood clot; in Albuquerque. A "best-dressed" society glamour girl of the '20s. Millicent made an unhappy career of marrying in haste, repenting in opulent leisure. Her husbands: 1) penniless Austrian Count Ludwig Constantin Salm (1924-27), 2) dashing Argentine Socialite Arturo Peralta Ramos (1927-35), 3) Manhattan Broker Ronald B. Balcom (1936-41). In later years, she Iived alone on a small New Mexican ranch in the shadow of a sacred Taos Indian...
...doctors called Roger's condition "precarious." He was still in a deep coma, his brain numbed by scant circulation because the operation had left him without a sagittal vein to carry blood from the top of the brain back toward the heart. Roger had no life functions except the most elemental and automatic: breathing, digestion and elimination. Rodney, who got the sagittal vein which the twins had formerly shared, drifted in & out of sleep. Awake, Rodney showed the same powers of observation and speech as before the operation, but was still groggy from the ordeal. His condition was "critical...
...almost constantly, was Pediatrician Herbert J. Grossman, waiting to flag the surgeons when the time came to operate again. For the doctors were convinced that neither twin could get much better without a top to his brainpan (now closed lightly with plastic, metal foil and bandage). The longer the brain cavities remained unsealed, the greater the danger of a fatal infection. So far. neither of the babies was strong enough to face more surgery...
...Olivia de Havilland) a murderess who killed her former husband? And is she now slowly doing away with her lover (Richard Burton) by slipping laburnum seeds into his tea? Or is Rachel only misunderstood-a gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf beats on the misty Cornish coast, shadows loom in moss-covered castles. Most of the characters are moody, tormented people who indulge in such...
Then the doctors learned the worst: each baby, to have a complete and independent circulatory system, should have had a big vein (unaptly called a sagittal sinus) running fore & aft along the top of his brain to gather blood from smaller vessels and deliver it, through the jugular, back to the heart. The twins had only one. There was no way to divide it, no way to make another. One baby had to get it, and with it, a good chance to survive. The other must almost certainly perish. Little Rodney had the better chance to live, anyway...