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...disease of such severity that only a new heart could give Russell a chance for survival. He referred Russell to Surgeon Richard Lower at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Lower had worked at Stanford University with Dr. Norman Shumway devising, in animals, the transplant technique that Surgeon Christiaan Barnard later adopted...
When a torrid billet-doux she once wrote to Dr. Christiaan Barnard hit the Italian papers, Gina Lollobrigida filed a loud complaint. La Lollo explained that she had written the scorcher in English, hardly her best language; it had then been translated into German by Quick magazine and finally put back into her native tongue by the Italian press. The result, she said, was something less than accurate. Whatever the message, Gina is suing both Barnard and his exwife, who published the letter in her memoirs. She loved the surgeon once, Gina confesses, but left him because...
Married. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 47, South African heart transplant pioneer turned man-about-international society; and Barbara Zoellner, 19, swinging daughter of a wealthy South African industrialist, once dubbed "Johannesburg's most eligible bachelor girl"; he for the second time (he was divorced last August by his wife of 21 years on grounds of desertion); in a civil ceremony; in Johannesburg...
Proceeds from his memoirs, Ein Leben (A Life), have helped Heartbreaker and Transplanter Christiaan Barnard to entertain his beautiful young fiancee in jet-set elegance. But the woman scorned, ex-Wife Louwtjie Barnard, 47, says those memoirs occasionally lapse into pure -or impure-invention. For instance, Barnard's recollection that he had left his wife's bed on their wedding night and watched a televised boxing match instead. Louwtjie told reporters in Munich that the surgeon "never was a gentleman," adding, "but I always was a lady." She had a final warning...
...Hawkeye Pierce, Donald Sutherland plays the penultimate draftee, a drooping, lugubrious sack of sadness who makes Beetle Bailey look like Douglas MacArthur. His sidekick, Trapper, pungently played by Elliott Gould, is a fur-bearing slob with the skills of a Christiaan Barnard and the instincts of a pornographer. "How was it?" he teases Burns, post-coitus: "Better than self-abuse...