Word: electrocardiograms
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Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 73, is almost as eager as was Captain Ahab to sink a harpoon into the mightiest leviathan of the deep, but for a different reason: he wants to record its electrocardiogram. Dr. White has logged the ECG of a small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
...Finally heeding his doctors' pleas, the Governor raced down to New Orleans for a checkup, startled a crowd of onlookers by relieving himself on the carpet of the hallway outside his Hotel Roosevelt suite. Then he grumpily submitted to an electrocardiogram (diagnosis: "He's in bad shape''), ordered some natty new clothes, received redheaded Blaze Starr, his favorite Bourbon Street stripteaser. at 2:30 a.m., later dashed off to Baton Rouge...
...months ago from ileitis. Next morning appeared three of the neurologists who were called in after his stroke-Georgetown's Dr. Francis M. Forster, Columbia's Dr. H. Houston Merritt, and Walter Reed's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen Jr. They ordered an electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram, spent 65 minutes studying the results and checking their patient. Verdict at tests' end: the President was completely recovered from the stroke; the defect in his speech had disappeared. Thereupon Walter Reed's most famed patient drove back to the White House, faced a load of work that...
Died. Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohn, 78, heart specialist who introduced the electrocardiogram to the U.S. (1910), member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920-44), and noted essayist (Minerva's Progress); after long illness; in New Milford, Conn...
...President has made an excellent recovery from the operation for acute intestinal obstruction due to an old 'burntout' ileitis . . . The heart is not enlarged . . . The size of the heart's shadow [is] unchanged in comparison with the films made during the past ten years . . . The electrocardiogram shows the same residual changes of a well-healed heart-muscle scar which have been present since recovery from the attack last year." Ike's weight, 163 when he checked out of Walter Reed last June...