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...Alexis Carrel, 65. Most famed of the five, bald, poetic Dr. Carrel won the 1912 Nobel Prize for his remarkable success in suturing blood vessels and transplanting organs. For 27 years he has kept a scrap of chicken heart alive and growing. Every few days the heart has to be trimmed, for it spreads so rapidly that if left alone it would fill the laboratory in a year. At present Dr. Carrel is continuing experiments with Colleague Charles Augustus Lindbergh on the "perfusion pump" (TIME, June 13), which keeps other disembodied organs alive outside the parent body for indefinite periods...
your country today's problems are farther developed--especially human regeneration. Look at Chicago's parks and their baths for children! Look at Carrel's book ('Man the Unknown'), which has had a wide influence in Europe...
...friend & collaborator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose island adjoins his off the coast of France, Dr. Alexis Carrel told a French newshawk: "I pray you, do not try to see him. Since the great misfortune and trial that befell him, Colonel Lindbergh has changed a great deal. He is hypersensitive and wants only quiet and to be forgotten. Do not harass him. He has suffered enough. Leave him alone...
...Carrel is 65 this month. He will leave soon to spend the summer on his island, as he does each year. Vigorous in mind and body, he has a definite program of experimental work in front of him. Colonel Lindbergh also has vast projects on which to work...
...makes an arresting picture-one that French, Roman Catholic Dr. Carrel is romantic and mystic enough to appreciate - two men, one an ageless seer, the other a young and devoted inventor, sitting on two rocks in the middle of a sea, talking, planning ways to prolong the life and end the ills of mankind...