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DIED. Virginia Fox Zanuck, 83, once Buster Keaton's leading lady, Mack Sennett's tiniest bathing beauty, and in 1924 Movie Tycoon Darryl F. Zanuck's storybook bride (although they did not live happily ever after); of a lung infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. The petite (4 ft. 9 in.) Virginia Fox gave up her acting career when she met Zanuck, then a struggling scriptwriter, on a blind date. A renowned Hollywood hostess, she zealously sang his praises for years, but the marriage was later marred by Darryl's persistent extramarital affairs and by much publicized...
...Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: "It's my life, all right. I'll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie...
...Medical Center in New York City. Wilson, 25, a landscaper and father of four, was spraying weeds with the herbicide paraquat on Aug. 30, when the equipment apparently malfunctioned and he accidentally inhaled the toxic chemical. Paraquat lodges in the muscle tissue and travels in the blood to the lungs, where it does continual damage as long as it remains in the body. After steadily declining in a Florida hospital, Wilson was transferred to Montefiore in a final effort to save his life. There, doctors continued to remove the poison from his system by filtering his blood through charcoal...
...were performed by Veith at Montefiore), but only in the past few years, with the introduction of cyclosporine, a drug that helps prevent the rejection of foreign tissue, have patients survived more than a year. At present the only survivor besides Wilson is another paraquat victim, who had two lungs transplanted in separate operations several weeks ago in Toronto. One limiting factor for lung transplants is the lack of suitable donors. Wilson, however, was lucky. The lungs of Thomas Riso, 19, an auto-accident victim who matched Wilson in size and blood type, became available. Rise's right lung...
Almost everyone is convinced that giving up cigarettes, reducing high blood pressure and cutting down on cholesterol lower the risk of death from heart disease. Proving it, however, is difficult. Ten years ago, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute undertook the largest study ever, involving 12,866 men between ages 35 and 57 who were considered to be high-risk candidates for heart disease. Half were assigned to a special intervention (SI) program in which they received treatment for hypertension, plus counseling to reduce their cigarette use and intake of cholesterol. The other half relied on their usual health...