Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Can Go Wrong. An alarming number of things can be wrong with the heart to require surgery. Some defects may be present in a child's heart or great vessels at birth (estimated annual U.S. incidence: 30,000 to 80,000 births). The great vessels (pulmonary artery and aorta) may be transposed, not harmful during fetal life but usually fatal soon after birth. Often there is a hole in the wall (septum) between the auricles or between the ventricles; there may be a hole permitting all four heart chambers to communicate. The aorta may override (straddle) both right...
...finger through the "tail" of the auricle (the "appendage"), slid a knife along it and slit the joined valve leaves apart. Eight days later Claire Ward went to Chicago to appear before a meeting of chest physicians. Last October, almost nine years after her operation, she had a second child. She takes full care of her children and her second-floor walk-up apartment...
...Bubble Problem. Despite this hopeful start the heart-lung machine was far from perfected. Minnesota's Clarence Walton Lillehei developed an ingenious temporary expedient: he used a donor, usually the father, for a child patient, connected their circulatory systems and thus made the donor's heart and lungs do the work of the patient's during the operation. The trouble was that this method risked two lives instead of one. Next, Lillehei & Co. used a freshly removed dog's lung, carefully cleaned and cleared of its own blood, for the same purpose. Two years ago, there...
Gamy Gamut. Unlike soap opera, the average confession story runs a gamy gamut of misadventure and misfortune whose-Boccaccian detail is tempered only by the bowdlerized prose of Hollywood. A bastard is a "sin child" or "living proof," adultery is "cheating." But in the end, every Wedding-Ring Dodger and Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick...
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. "The Catholic parent who exercises his undisputed right to educate his child in the atmosphere of a Catholic school is convinced that an integral education-a complete education-is possible only where a child receives thorough and systematic training in man's obligations to know, love and serve God his Creator and Redeemer. Protestants very often misunderstand the parochial school. Too often they repeat the slogan about the Catholic school being a 'divisive' influence on American society...