Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jo Ellen Koenig was a pretty, auburn-haired baby who seemed normal in every way when she was born in Cincinnati on Aug. 29, 1954. and she apparently throve on formula and some Pablum. At six months she seemed insatiably hungry. Still, her mother, a registered nurse, did not worry until 15 months, when Jo Ellen became abnormally irritable and puffy-faced. Doctors suspected leukemia-tests were negative. They thought of kidney disease-negative. Heart trouble-Jo Ellen was treated for three weeks and got no better. Finally they called in Blood Specialist Marion Eugene Lahey...
...watched Jo Ellen get sicker and paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling...
...Jo Ellen was a patient again. Dr. Lahey and his colleague, Dr. William Schubert, started giving her both iron and copper. Jo Ellen grew back to apparent health-although she still needs five daily doses of a solution containing copper...
...lyrics, with their flat words and cliche rhymes, are not really suitable company for his music. Perhaps the only things that are suitable are Baritone Robert Weede in the title role, Susan Johnson in a comedy role, much of Joseph Anthony's lively staging and the best of Jo Mielziner's sets. But in working toward something more varied and spacious than the standard Broadway musical, Fella at its worst is a misstep forward; while the music itself is among Broadway's most resplendent in years...
...brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...