Word: ellen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ellen Koenig was a pretty, auburn-haired baby who seemed normal in every way when she was born in Cincinnati on Aug. 29, 1954. and she apparently throve on formula and some Pablum. At six months she seemed insatiably hungry. Still, her mother, a registered nurse, did not worry until 15 months, when Jo Ellen became abnormally irritable and puffy-faced. Doctors suspected leukemia-tests were negative. They thought of kidney disease-negative. Heart trouble-Jo Ellen was treated for three weeks and got no better. Finally they called in Blood Specialist Marion Eugene Lahey...
...watched Jo Ellen get sicker and paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling...
Electoral chairman Jean L. Anderson '59 announced the 1956 Radcliffe Senior Class Marshals yesterday. They are Nancy D. Campbell, Julia A. Harmon, Marina von Neumann, Ellen Rome, and Joan M. Rubenstein...
Playing alert defensive ball, 'Cliffe guards Ellen Deitsch, Anne Gordon, and Margaret Smertenko held Pine Manor forwards scoreless in the third quarter. The yellow-clad lassies rallied to score 11 points in the final period against Radcliffe's seven, but failed to catch up to the hot, early-game pace set by the home team...
...varying degrees, were physically handicapped. But their worst trouble did not lie in their weakened or useless muscles. They had crutches in their minds. Ridding the physically handicapped of their mental crutches is the job of an organization that has already changed the lives and attitudes of Martin, Ellen and Mr. Juskalian. Its name: Courage...