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...headiest excitement at the Brigham currently is in the field of transplants. Since few patients are lucky enough to have identical twins handy as donors, Surgeon Francis Moore is working on ways of getting grafts to take between unrelated individuals. In animals, his team has had some success by erecting a "filter barrier" around grafted glands, protecting them from the recipient's antibodies. On the basis of such studies, Dr. James B. Dealy Jr. predicted last week that the time is not far off when a replacement organ will be transplanted into an ailing human being with little more...
...Motor Co. developed a new car so seemingly sleek that no known Detroit word could possibly describe it. What to name it? Soaring images tumbled from copywriters' brains; contests were held. But to Ford Special Products Division's David Wallace, a most literate carmaker, even the brightest, headiest names in all cardom were far from enough. This was no mere car; it was poetry in motion. And it was to the nation's leading poetess that Wallace went for help...
...second term, already has sold 5,500 copies at $3.98. Book publisher Doubleday started its Dolphin division pressing records by sophisticated theater, nightclub and television stars. Last week Columbia Presi dent Goddard Lieberson, who induced CBS Chairman William S. Paley to back Fair Lady, took the company's headiest step yet. He issued a recording of the complete dialogue from the surrealistic play, Waiting for Godot, starring Comedian Bert Lahr...
Beyond Deserts. That night, in a little Italian restaurant called La Pantera, he had the bubblingest, headiest experience of all. Outside La Pantera, a full block at the foot of Telegraph Hill had been roped off and was jammed with jostling, laughing, folk-singing Italians, who drank free wine from paper cups and made the night ring with their cheers at Stevenson's simple statement: "I have come here to ask for your vote." While four cops wrestled to hold back the crowd. Stevenson struggled into La Pantera for dinner with Owner Rena Nicolai and her employees. They pushed...
Perfume of Exhaust Fumes. Frenchbred Lilly was "just eighteen when I stood (for the first time) at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway" and "breathed in the perfume of exhaust fumes . . . sweeter to me than the headiest essences of the flower fields of France." Few of the natives shared this preference for exhaust fumes, so Lilly was obliged to go to work cultivating the headier essences, and is now a rich, renowned and happily married hatter-"Lilly Dache from 9 to 5 and Mrs. [Jean] Despres from 5 to 9." Both personalities have contributed to this book...