Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith is appalled to know that "kids in the Little League cry when they lose a game." What sensible man would deny that it was a healthier day when the brat ballplayer, unwashed and ununiformed, never cried "unless he caught a foul tip with the end of his finger...
...Mashed Finger. "When I was four," Reporter McCluggage says, "I asked Santa Claus for a doll on roller skates and an Austin." Growing up in Topeka, Kans., she was a determined tomboy, mashed the end of a finger playing softball, and was easily "the best blocking back on the block." At Mills College near San Francisco she won a Phi Beta Kappa key as a philosophy major, and after graduating in 1947 decided to become a reporter. She haunted the San Francisco Chronicle city room for six months before penetrating the conventional misogyny of the craft and persuading the weekly...
...addition to the 100-freestyle, Dyer finished second to Bob Keiter of Amherst by two knuckles of a finger length in the finals of the 50-yard freestyle, which was so close that the judges took more than five minutes to decide...
...Finger & Knife. Philadelphia's Bailey was impatient to touch down. He had strong personal reasons: as a boy of twelve, he had seen his father, a broker, die at 42 of a lung hemorrhage, the direct result of heart disease. After what Bailey considers less than average preparation for such a post (New Jersey's Rutgers University, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, a year's internship, four years of general practice in Lakewood, N.J., two years of intensive lung surgery), he was placed in charge of chest surgery at Hahnemann in 1940. He is now professor...
After working on dogs for five years, duplicating earlier abortive mitral-valve operations, Bailey thought he knew what had been wrong with them-faulty approach and damaging the leaflets of the valves. He worked out his own approach, first put his finger inside a human heart to open a scarred mitral valve in June 1945. Through an accident (no fault of Bailey's) the patient bled to death. Misfortune beset him in three other cases. Not until June 10, 1948 did he have a "good risk" patient at Philadelphia's Episcopal Hospital. Mrs. Melville Ward, 24, of East...