Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following the transplant, the common-law wife of the donor, Janitor Luis Ferreira de Barros, 41, arrived at the hospital. When she found out what had happened, she threatened to sue the doctors for removing the heart without permission. She may yet have her day in court. Presently, a bill to legalize such quick transplants is stalled in the Brazilian legislature. Cause for the delay: a proposed provision for assigning mistresses priority over parents, brothers and sisters in granting permission for heart removals. ∙∙∙ The day before the Sao Paulo transplant, Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Edson...
Died. Altaf Husain, 68, editor from 1945 to 1965 of Dawn, Pakistan's biggest English-language daily; of a heart attack; in Karachi. A longtime friend of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, Husain was a neutralist in foreign affairs, in recent years had much to do with Pakistan's shift from the West towards stronger ties with Communist China and the Soviet Union...
Died. C. Douglass Welch, 61, portly good-humor man, whose nationally syndicated column, "The Squirrel Cage," appeared in 32 newspapers around the country; of a heart attack; in Seattle. With a combination of humor and an acid pen, Welch attacked the wrongs of the world, created "Happy" Digby, whose bouts with small-town authority were followed by Saturday Evening Post readers for more than 14 years...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Vian, 73, British naval hero, whose rescue of 300 seamen from the German prison ship Altmark in February 1940 was one of the few things Britons could cheer about that year; of a heart attack; in Newbury, England. After taking the destroyer Cossack into a Norwegian fiord at night, Vian put her alongside the Altmark, then led his men aboard, crying "The navy is here...
Died. Lenox R. Lohr, 76, president of NBC from 1936 to 1940, who then took over the faltering Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in 1940, and made it one of the world's most popular halls of science; of a heart attack; in Chicago. "A tragedy has occurred in our city," lamented a Chicago physicist on learning that the freewheeling radioman was to head the museum. Yet Lohr gave the public everything from a working German U-boat to a pulsing 16-ft. model of the human heart-all of which drew a record 3,300,000 visitors...