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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...
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...
...lost his money, became a dairy farmer with young Steve's help. By janitoring and chauffeuring, young Mitchell worked his way through Creighton University prep school at Omaha. Later, he worked in the credit and sales promotion departments of General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Washington, studied law at Georgetown University at night. In 1932, he moved to Chicago, set himself up as a corporation lawyer, soon had a lucrative practice. (Best-known client: Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago.) Mitchell became friendly with Stevenson in 1945, when the two men would sit up late at night talking law. Mitchell...
...because they were too young. They found an unemployed clerk, armed him with samples of their work and got him hired on a paper. For months they worked as his ghost. Because they worried about being so much alike, they split up and went to different colleges; Mustafa to Georgetown to study international relations, Ali to Sheffield in England to take mechanical engineering...