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Died. James Thurber, 66, creator of Walter Mitty and chronicler of the war between the sexes; a month after emergency surgery for a blood clot on the brain; in Manhattan...
...million Americans who have had heart attacks or strokes caused by blood clots now take anti-clotting drugs regularly to cut down the danger of recurrences. But their blood takes so much longer to clot that dental and other surgeons are confronted with a dilemma: Should they keep a patient on the anticoagulant drug during an operation and run the risk of severe (perhaps fatal) bleeding, or should they take him off the drug for a few days and run the risk of clotting in an artery of the heart or brain? Such authorities as the New England Journal...
...intima, or inner wall of a coronary artery. The proteins and fats are burned off, and the cholesterol is left behind. As cholesterol piles up, it narrows, irritates and damages the artery, encouraging formation of calcium deposits and slowing circulation. Eventually, says Keys, one of two things happens. A clot forms at the site, seals off the flow of blood to the heart and provokes a heart attack. Or (more commonly, thinks Keys) the deposits themselves get so big that they choke off the artery's flow to the point that an infarct occurs: the heart muscle is suffocated...
...supplies only two main branches. But, said Dr. Kirgis, about 14% of all brains studied at autopsy show the internal carotid still feeding three branch arteries on one side of the brain, and in a few cases this is true on both sides. A hemorrhage or, more common, a clot in the internal carotid of such people is apt to do far more damage than in people of normal arterial development, because there is a greater bottleneck for blood supply to essential areas...
They didn't. Archie Rice (Sir Laurence Olivier) may stink but he's not dead, and if he was, he'd be too much of a clot to lie down. After the show he emcees a beauty contest and then chases after the delicious "piece of crackling" who wins second prize. "All she needs," the girl's mother assures Archie, "is a little push.'' So Archie gives her a push, but not the kind her mother had in mind...