Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presses for a Page One beat. One night last week-as he later told the story-an anonymous phone call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...
Wires, So to Speak. From Houston came news of a similar and equally daring operation on an adult with an injured heart. The Houston doctors decided that they did not need to stop the beat of an adult's heart already damaged by a blockage in the arteries feeding its muscle (coronary thrombosis or myocardial infarction). Bertram Sommerfield, 49, a Houston businessman, had a heart attack three months ago. One of its incidental effects was to tear a gaping hole in the septum between the ventricles. In adults, this usually is quickly fatal...
Instead of the Kolff lung, the Houston team used a bubble oxygenator, which pumps oxygen into a column of blood withdrawn from the body. (The methods of taking the blood in and out of the body, and pumping it, are similar in the two techniques.) When Dr. Cooley opened the heart, he found that the hole was the size of a half-dollar-too big to close by simple stitching. It needed a blowout patch. With the heart still beating, but relatively free of blood so that he could see what he was doing, Dr. Cooley took a piece...
Getaway Day. In Houston, Mrs. Sammie Lee Hicks described her husband for the missing persons bureau: "He has a flat forehead and a large nose and mouth. All in all, he looks like a horse...
...that she was lonely and a company representative insisted on taking her home to share Christmas dinner with his family. Since many U.S. tourists report lost or stolen valuables ot American express rather than police, company agents have to be part sleuth, part psychologist. For example, as a wealthy Houston woman boarded the boat train for Le Havre in Paris last summer, she shrieked that she had lost $60,000 worth of jewels. "Don't worry, lady," an American Express escort reassured her, "You take the train and we'll find the jewels." The agent headed unerringly...