Word: helm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson plainly was out to show the world that the U.S. has at its helm a President as active and vigorous as ever before. After three weeks in office, he had more than made his point...
...blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances. Could a single kidney bear the added stresses of pregnancy? The question became a crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become unmanageable, and the Brigham doctors concluded that only a transplant could save her life. Sister Wanda was willing, and graft tests...
...doctors relaxed when the kidney graft took. But they became understandably tense in January of 1958, when Edith Helm arrived from Sand Springs, Okla., about seven months pregnant. On March 10 she had a normal baby boy by caesarean. Little more than two years later she had a girl, also by caesarean, in Gushing, Okla. Meanwhile, Sister Wanda had had three normal pregnancies and deliveries...
...case of Edith Helm has proved that a kidney transplanted to an unnatural location can do double duty and also withstand the strains of repeated pregnancies. As the Brigham team headed by Surgeon Joseph Murray reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, this is "gratifying." Beyond the doctors' Yankee reserve, though, is the knowledge that no tougher test of their technique could be devised...
When young Johnny Schlesinger took the helm of South Africa's sprawling Schlesinger Organization in 1949, many observers expected to witness another sad case of like father, unlike son. Patriarch I. W. Schlesinger had built his $84 million real estate and cinema-chain empire on thrift, hustle and an eye for the shape of things to come. At 26, Son John was a Harvard-educated playboy with plenty of hustle in a speedboat race and a keen eye for judging beauty queens. But John Schlesinger, after 14 years of stewardship, has fooled everyone. He has not only preserved...