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When Dr. Horace Smithy, crack young (34) surgeon of the Medical College of South Carolina, first examined his patient, he thought her trip to Charleston had been in vain. Blonde Betty Lee Woolridge was an almost classic example of the wreckage caused when a heart is crippled by rheumatic fever. At 21, Betty Lee weighed only 85 pounds; veins in her neck stood out like whipcords; her abdomen was swollen with a fluid by-product of congestive heart failure. Doctors in her home town of Canton, Ohio had told her she had only a year to live...
...Then he developed a way of using procaine (local anesthetic common in dentistry) to control the violent, often fatal spasms that usually plague surgeons who have the courage to operate on the heart. Dr. Smithy was ready for his first operation on a human being when Betty Lee reached Charleston's Roper Hospital...
...South Carolina, the Charleston News & Courier had a more radical idea: "Were the Court to decree that Negroes be admitted into state-supported colleges for white students in South Carolina, this paper would urge that all appropriations for the [state universities] cease. That could close them. The white people would have plenty of money to support private colleges for themselves...
...Mont had another newscast, illustrated with still newsphotos. A travelogue about "quaint" old Charleston followed...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). The Charleston (W.Va.) Symphony Orchestra plays Kalinnikov's First Symphony. Conductor: AntonioModarelli...