Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John C. Montgomery, 42, bachelor chief of the State Department's Finnish desk; by his own hand (hanging); in Washington, in a Georgetown home that he shared with Lawyer-Socialite A. Marvin Braverman, sometime dinner escort of Margaret Truman...
Charlie Capozzoli, a Georgetown senior who ran in last summer's Olympics, won the individual championship, speeding over the five-mile course in 24:30.1, just 15 seconds over the record...
Michigan State took third, seventh, eighth, ninth, and 19th to win the meet with 46 points. Army finished second with 93, followed closely by Syracuse with 98. Fourth place Penn State had 109, Georgetown 187, Pittsburgh, 201, St. John's 214, Villanova 248, Manhattan 306, Rhode Island 321, Cornell 328, Rutgers 329, M.I.T. 351, Yale 356, Harvard 376, Fordham 390, La Salle 404, Princeton 451, Columbia 495, Colgate 519, N.Y.U. 520, City College 528, and Temple...
Last month, at Georgetown University Medical Center, the young woman (now 30) became the first patient in medical history to be fitted successfully with an artificial aortic valve. (Boston surgeons have slipped a plastic ball into the mitral valve-TIME, March 10). Though she will still have to follow doctor's orders (digitalis, salt rationing and plenty of rest), she is a changed woman-vigorous, gaining strength and hope, and free from the pain of angina...
When several of the dogs had survived for two years or more with plastic valves and no ill effects, Georgetown sponsored Dr. Hufnagel's work and the U.S. Public Health Service helped with funds. The valve, as perfected, is made of Plexiglas and contains a float the size of a mothball which rises and slips into one of three sockets in the side of the valve sleeve on the heart's upbeat, when blood is forced into the aorta. When the heart relaxes between beats, the ball falls into a seat and stops blood from leaking back into...