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...stories were as good as these. There was a woman with a heart valve scarred by rheumatic fever, which worked well after surgery but has recently begun to leak again. Four of the reunionists had symptoms which led to their being promptly hospitalized for observation and possibly further treatment. But the assemblage proved its point: delicate surgery inside the heart is getting safer, and it can bring many a case, once thought hopeless, back to healthy, happy living. The patients at their dinner dance gave their loudest applause to a doctor who introduced Surgeon Bailey with the words...
...oftener a mere yarn that suspends seriousness in favor of suspense. The U.N.'s Czech delegate, who in happier days had been Delegate Cornell's lover, calls, out of confused personal emotions, at her house and promptly dies of a heart attack. Were the fact to leak out, the repercussions might wreck the Prescott Proposals...
Engine Cleaner. Shell Oil Co. brought out a new motor oil, which, it claims, will dissolve the deposits formed in engines when antifreeze solutions leak into the oil and make valves stick. Price...
...leak in the grease cell of a rear wheel had caused the brakes to lock, the court said, and Gaidry Motors knew about the leak, because the man who sold them the car told them about it. Thus, Gaidry Motors should have warned Hensley. In awarding $11,489.95 to Brannon, the court said: "The used-car dealer is in a better position . . . than his average customer to discover what defects might exist in any particular car ... It is not too harsh a rule to require these dealers to use reasonable care in inspecting used cars before resale to discover these...
...giving advance notice of the new policy on the Du Mont network's TV panel show, The Big Issue, Hagerty found himself under fire. His attacker: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Washington Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, who was still smarting over the Warren leak (TIME, Oct. 12). "The information order relates to the classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems...