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Felipe had developed a crush on Donna Ashlock, 14, a freckle-faced student who worked as a waitress at the Tiger's Den Drive-in. "He loved to be around her," recalled one of Donna's friends. Last summer Felipe dated her, just once. Shortly before Christmas, he learned that Donna had an enlarged heart and was not expected to live more than two months. Felipe too had a health problem: he suffered from severe headaches. He told his mother, "If I die, give my heart to my girlfriend." When a blood vessel ruptured in Felipe's brain, killing...
...storybook legend of Donna Ashlock continues to grow. She is the California youngster whose romantically heartsick school friend, Felipe Garza, astoundingly prefigured his own death and directed that her sick heart be replaced with his. When Garza, 15, actually did die of a burst blood vessel in the brain, a transplant proved possible, and last week, just eleven days after the operation, Donna, 14, was well enough to log ten minutes on an exercise bicycle. Doctors at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco said that her body showed no signs of rejecting her new heart and that she might...
...DIED. Donna Reed, 64, hazel-eyed, sweetly pretty actress who came to symbolize the heartland virtues of American womanhood in films like It's a Wonderful Life (1946) but who won a supporting-actress Oscar when she played against type as a prostitute in 1953's From Here to Eternity; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. Best known as the warmhearted wife and mother in her weekly comedy television series The Donna Reed Show (1958-66), she once insisted that "the public really does want to see a healthy woman, not a girl, not a neurotic, not a sexpot." Her last...
More than a custodian of his father’s works, Nabokov has become a jet-setter on his own, splitting his time between Palm Beach and Montreux, Switzerland. Like his father, he plays the prima donna to the media, insisting on interviewing through e-mail with The Crimson and crafting answers in advance for Russian television...
...PRIMA DONNA...