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When Smith was brought into Eden Hospital in nearby Castro Valley, Dr. Stephen Landreth, 37, an orthopedic surgeon, prepared for a standard amputation. Then he had a thought: "This is too good a leg to throw away." He got on the telephone to Dr. Alan Gathright, 38, a vascular surgeon, 20 miles away in Oakland. Asked Dr. Landreth: "You want to try for a miracle?" Gathright did, and he sped to the hospital...
During Taft's visit, a newsman asked Delegation Chairman Floyd Landreth if the Virginia delegates were getting to like Ike better. "That might well be true," he replied. "If Eisenhower were nominated and the Democrats muffed it, Ike might win. If Taft were nominated, I don't know, but they would have to muff it pretty keen...
...HELEN LANDRETH Brooklyn...
...Author Landreth not get her Irish up, and eat hearty, now she's home. TIME said her book was "exhaustive...
...only recently turned up. What the records show seems chiefly pathetic to readers schooled in the calculating and brilliant revolutionary techniques of Marx and Lenin. Unlike those men, Robert Emmet lived, from boyhood to scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity College, from which he was expelled for his subversive opinions, young Emmet entered...