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Died. James Aloysius Finnegan, 51, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, manager of Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign; of pneumonia, complicated by a lung cancer; in Philadelphia...
Burned by research linking smoking with lung cancer and by congressional charges that many filters actually filter very little (TIME, March 3), tobaccomen are quietly reducing nicotine and tars in cigarettes. Last week Consumer Reports, whose March 1957 tests played a large part in the congressional blast, reported results of latest tests, showing milligram declines in the last year. Those brands lowest in content...
...open-heart operation filmed in a University of Minnesota hospital. The patient: a pretty five-year-old blue baby named Debbie, who was wheeled into the operating room with a toy lion perched on her chest. Dr. Richard DeWall was on the scene to explain how his heart-lung pump oxygenator would take the place of Debbie's heart and lungs during the surgery. Famed Heart Surgeon Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a pioneer in such operations, went to work on Debbie's exposed heart as a narrator filled in crisp details: "Notice the oversized aorta and beneath...
Died. Dwight Herbert Green, 61, onetime (1941-48) Republican governor of Illinois, early famed as federal prosecutor of Al Capone, later as yes-man to the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of lung cancer; in Chicago. Green nominated Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency in 1944, keynoted the 1948 Republican Convention. Trying for an unprecedented third consecutive term, he was defeated by Adlai Stevenson, soon reappeared in the news as the governor who put 51 Illinois newsmen on the state payroll, spent his final years practicing law in Chicago...
After the heart has been opened to close holes between its chambers, with aid from a heart-lung machine, it can be helped to settle down to a steady, normal rhythm by leaving anelectrode attached to the heart muscle itself for days or even weeks. So reported Minneapolis' famed Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei to the New York Heart Association last week...