Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within Memorial, surgeons removed the donor's liver and the enormously enlarged, cancerous liver of Caroline Varney, 27, a bride of six months. This transplant took far longer than the heart. Not only are the liver's anatomical connections more difficult, but Mrs. Varney's diseased liver presented special problems. At week's end, all four recipients of organs from this six-way surgical achievement seemed to be doing well. The Varney family, like the donor's brothers, hoped that the achievement would encourage others to arrange similar multiple donations...
...often had doubts about intermarriage between the generations. The Talmud warns that "the Lord will not pardon him" who marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son. Literature abounds with bawdy cautionary tales describing the jealous geriatric husband and his ripe, relentless bride. For all the sniggers, though, older men have historically married much younger women. Given the hazards of childbearing until 50 or 60 years ago, it was not unusual for a man to bury one or two young wives. In those days, death provided the variety now offered by divorce...
...older man, often fighting clear of a wrecked marriage, typically hopes that a young bride will restore some of his waning sexuality and lost youth. Sexually, at least, he may be sadly mistaken. Many cases indicate that while a man's potency can be dramatically stimulated for a few months by an affair with a younger woman, he will usually revert to the same pattern he had maintained with his coeval wife. According to Sociologist Clark Vincent, on the other hand, there is more likelihood of serious differences in sexual appetite among coevals than among May-December couples. Vincent...
...must one age treat another in a May-December marriage? Carefully, very carefully. Sometimes after the first ex citement has dissipated, an older man realizes how young and unformed his bride's character is, and how much she is sacrificing, deliberately or not, in the way of normal development among her contemporaries. Such husbands must often assume a fatherly role in encouraging their wives' interests and education. Bing Crosby, who was 53 in 1957 when he married Kathy Crosby, then 23, encouraged his wife's careers as an actress and a nurse. Justice Douglas has been quietly...
Eventually, he learned to tell the difference. With a new bride, he moved to Oklahoma, became a young people's leader for the Church of God, soon felt the call to move on to California. There he organized churches of God in Bakersfield, San Jose and Sunnyvale. He also became a relatively successful contractor, prosperous enough to hire people to read to him from the Bible. "My wife and other people would read the verses to me, and I would mem-brize them," he says. "I have a good membry, and sometimes I would stay up all night long...