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...other researchers. PGs often work in antagonistic pairs. One, for example, lowers blood pressure, while another raises it. One dilates bronchial tubes, a second constricts them. One promotes the inflammatory process, another inhibits it. A type called thromboxanes, discovered in platelets by Samuelsson in 1973, helps blood to clot; prostacyclin, a PG identified by Vane in 1976, is the most powerful natural inhibitor of clotting...
DIED. Don Wilson, 81, orotund announcer and foil for Jack Benny on radio and TV for more than 30 years; of a blood clot to the brain; in Palm Springs, Calif. In his most familiar routine, Wilson protested, "But, Jack," in mock dismay at not being able to get the commercial started...
...keep other options open, and consequently has allowed them to play more loosely. "You have to remember that other guys on the team will be playing ball all their life." Brown says. For Werly, the extra option was crucial, as two years ago, doctors told him a blood clot developing in his arm would prevent him from, ever pitching again...
DIED. Thomas Corcoran, 80, savvy Washington lawyer and lobbyist who helped shape Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; of a pulmonary blood clot; in Washington, D.C. Corcoran, who had once served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became an influential member of F.D.R.'s brain trust. Nicknamed "Tommy the Cork" by Roosevelt, Corcoran served as a presidential speechwriter and liaison with Congress, and helped write the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He was one of Roosevelt's key aides in the Chief Executive...
DIED. Samuel Rosen, 84, world-renowned ear surgeon who developed a revolutionary operation for curing otosclerosis, a common cause of deafness; of a blood clot; in Peking. He discovered the technique during an operation in 1952 when he accidentally jarred loose a tiny bone in the middle ear, immediately restoring the patient's hearing. After perfecting the procedure on hundreds of cadavers, he taught the operation all over the world, becoming a frequent visitor to China in the process...