Word: kolff
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...married, Clement thought it might be appropriate to hold the ceremony on the Staten Island Ferry (where both her fiancé and his father work as deck hands). Having received the necessary clearance, the couple were married last week on the bridge deck of the good ship Cornelius G. Kolff shortly after the boat left Staten Island on its 25-minute run to Manhattan. The cost of the love boat was modest indeed: members of the wedding and guests were charged the standard 25? ferry fare...
...decade since the dumpy, sometimes disheveled 47-year-old coach took over the reins from Butch van Breda Kolff, Princeton has logged a 201-91 record, swiping three Ivy titles in the process. In the same period, just to put you in perspective (Crimson diehards, close your eyes now), Harvard has gone 108-147 (open, please...
Still, the suitcase kidney is only an interim solution. Doctors hope ultimately for a machine so small and efficient that it would be inconspicuous when worn. The University of Utah's Dr. Willem Kolff, inventor of the original dialysis machine, reports progress toward that goal. He and his collaborators have developed an 8-lb. machine dubbed WAK (for wearable artificial kidney) that lets a patient walk around periodically during dialysis while it is hung from a shoulder band or strapped to the chest...
...Bill van Breda Kolff b. Heyward Dotson...
Winchell has been so impressed by Kolff's work that he has turned his patent over to the University of Utah, where Kolff has already kept calves alive for as long as 14 days with artificial hearts of his own design. Winchell's work may help improve upon that record...