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...within a few months his-brother was struck down by an incurable nervous disease, his mother died, his father went bankrupt, and Christian had to go south to recover from a lung ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Shocking Pink. North Carolina-born Mac Heath served as a paratroop flight surgeon in World War II, took a residency in obstetrics at Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital after he came home. Later, Heath heard that an aging doctor in the San Juan Islands was dying of lung cancer, moved to Friday Harbor in 1949 and examined his first patients in the back seat of a car while waiting for his office equipment to arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Amphibious Doctor | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...predigested milk protein, plus fruits and vegetables, arrested the disease. lung machine to help selected cardiac repeaters survive the critical first six to eight hours. The heart-lung machine, previously used mainly in heart surgery to provide the surgeon with a dry field, takes blood from the leg vein of a patient, infuses oxygen, filters out bubbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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