Word: branca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, a man named Ilidio Carlos Medina dos Santos had just read in his newspaper that a new drug, Varidase, might be just the thing for tuberculous meningitis. He wanted some, fast, for his little daughter Branca Maria...
...Branca Maria, 9, had been ill of tuberculous meningitis since April. At first, streptomycin seemed to help her, but lately even this had begun to fail her and she was wasting away rapidly, unable to keep food down. Her father knew nothing of the controversy among medical experts about the value of Varidase, a mixture of two enzymes, streptokinase and streptodornase (TIME, March 12), in her type of illness. He was ready to try anything...
...first game the Cards outhit the Dodgers, 9 to 6, but Dressen juggled three pitchers astutely enough to get a 3-2 victory on Roy Campanella's double in the ninth. The Cards outhit the Dodgers in the second game too, but Dressen helped to ease Pitcher Ralph Branca through the bad spots, and Campanella's home run again won for the Dodgers, 3 to 2. In the final game the Cardinals belted unbeaten Preacher Roe for nine hits while the Dodgers were getting five, but Brooklyn again won, 2 t01, on a ninthinning, bases-loaded single...
...problem as third base where the club has had to fall back on Billy Cox. A slow start by right fielder Carl Furllio has hurt slightly. Don Newoombe and Preacher Roe have carried the main pitching load, with some unexpected relief help by Clyde King. If King and Ralph Branca, who has pitched brilliantly recently, hold up the Dodgers will not be caught...
Brooklyn (Branca) 3, St. Louis...