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Loving parents gloat over the baby's encouraging growth and happy gurgles as they put him to bed. He is obviously in the best of health. At the next feed ing time, they are shocked to find him dead in bed. Such "crib deaths" happen in the best-doctored countries and to the best-cared-for babies. And most can never be explained. In the U.S. alone there are 10,000 such deaths a year, and they are so baffling that 50 U.S. and British medical experts met recently at the University of Washington to try to decide what...
Facts of Mystery. Characteristically inexplicable was what happened in Philadelphia during a heat wave in the last two weeks of June. There were 19 crib deaths, more than twice the usual number, among babies under six months, mostly boys. One explanation offered was that the babies died of dehydration, and this seemed plausible for a time because there were only one or two crib deaths right after the heat broke. But post-mortem examination of the victims showed no dehydration. And other cities that had suffered the same heat, or worse, reported no increase in crib deaths, which only served...
Until a dozen years ago, most crib deaths were laid to suffocation, and anguished mothers blamed themselves for carelessness. Then Dr. Keith Bowden, an Australian pathologist, did detailed autopsies in 40 consecutive cases and found that suffocation was not the cause in any of them. In most cases, he discovered evidence of a severe respiratory infection, of a type that develops incredibly fast. But for some deaths, he could find no cause...
...Brain. Ironically, Philadelphia is one of the places where the most intensive work has been done on crib deaths. Dr. Marie Valdes-Dapena, who has studied the problem for years, says that as many as 80% of crib deaths cannot be explained even after an unusually detailed autopsy. Dr. Frederic Rieders, the city's chief toxicologist, discovered an unidentified red substance in the brains of 80% of babies whose deaths are unexplained, and has found the stuff in only 20% of cases where there is a known cause of death. But what it is, or what relationship it bears...
...slim, scholarly bachelor, Dunn has been living with music from the time he could stand up in his crib. To amuse him, his parents put a tall phonograph and a stack of symphony records within reach, and Baby Dunn would change the records. At the age of twelve, he was playing the organ at the regular services at the Third Lutheran Church in Baltimore; at 16, he was conducting the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1960 as conductor of the 29-year-old choral society called the Cantata Singers, and his Philharmonic Hall...