Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JEAN C. MURPHY...
...right-wing General Charles de Gaulle. In his monumental book, The Voices of Silence, published in the U.S. last year (TIME, Nov. 23), Malraux seemed at last to have found his answer in art. Now, in a thoughtful essay in the French Catholic monthly, Etudes, Philosophy Professor Jean Onimus tells Malraux that he is wrong again...
...water was boiling in the croup kettle that Irene Lingo was fixing for her five-month-old daughter, Laura Jean, when the baby kicked it over. The scalding liquid burned Laura Jean's back and one arm. Mrs. Lingo wiped her off with a towel, ran two blocks to summon her brother-in-law with his car, and in a few minutes presented the baby at the emergency room of small (112 beds) Woodlawn Hospital on Chicago's South Side...
There, Dr. Hans Jaeger (an experienced German physician not yet licensed to practice in Illinois) examined Laura Jean. He saw no sign of shock and told a nurse how to dress the burns. Then he asked Mrs. Lingo whether she had hospitalization insurance. She did not. Could she put up $100 deposit? She could not. Then, said the doctor, the baby would have to go to Cook County Hospital. 10½ miles away. He was sure that she would be all right in a car, and he gave Mrs. Lingo a note to arrange for the admission...
...took well over an hour to get to County Hospital, but Laura Jean seemed no worse and was promptly admitted. Two interns and a resident pediatrician saw no evidence of shock; they changed the dressing on her burns and put her to bed. Late at night she awoke and played. But in the morning she was dead...