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Married. Helen ("Helenita") Kleberg, 21, blonde daughter of Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' huge, fabulous King Ranch (976,000 acres, 390 oil wells, 3,000 horses, including Derby Winner Assault); and Dr. John Deaver Alexander, 25, staff physician at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; in Kingsville...
...Deaver turned to a small figure with blue-ribboned braids in a small wheelchair. "Come on, honey," he said. Five-year-old Maureen Eagan (paralyzed by polio since the age of two) gravely slipped out of her chair, toddled shakily across the floor and fell into the doctor's arms. Said Deaver, as she buried a brown head in his shoulder: "She's going to walk as well as anyone...
...slim, dark-haired youth, minus a leg, wheeled himself in, then hopped nimbly up & down steps on crutches. "You probably read about Harold in the papers," said Deaver. "He's the boy who was smashed against a storefront by an automobile last fall, the day after he joined the Marines. When the surgeons amputated, I told them, 'Just give me six inches of stump below the knee; that's all I want.' When he gets his artificial leg, you won't know he has a disability...
...cross section of the city's crippled hobbled across Dr. Deaver's stage -sweater girls, old men, small boys. Said Dr. Deaver: "We're not interested in how it happened. All we're interested in is, what have we got left to work with? We take the patients in the third phase of medical care, after the surgeons and healers have done all they can for them, and try to bridge the gap from...
...massive Negro woman jumped up, marched up to the doctor. She was a rehabilitated Deaver alumna. She stood erect, held up her now unneeded cane. "Dr. Deaver," she shouted hoarsely, "I want to present you with this stick. Thank you, doctor, thank...