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Died. Elizabeth Bowen, 73, Irish novelist whose sensitive tales of young girls awakening to the reality of adulthood (The Death of the Heart, The House in Paris) earned her comparison with Virginia Woolf and Willa Gather; of lung cancer; in London. Descended from Irish gentry dating back to the age of Cromwell, Bowen moved to England as a child, briefly studied art, then found her forte during the '20s as a writer. Among her best books was The Heat of the Day, an account of life in London during World...
...would never harm a woman) customarily suffer alone, in traps set by a villain far offstage. In addition, permanent personal affliction usually lurks somewhere. The hero of For Kicks has a crippled hand. Forfeit-one of Francis' stronger plots-is marred by a wife in an iron lung whose patience rivals Penelope's. In the new book, the hero has a damaged child-big brother dropped her on her head, poor little nipper-but fortunately she is a continent away from most of the action...
Miller's first effort at reform inside the union came in 1969 when he organized the Black Lung Organization. The organization consequently persuaded Joseph Yablonski to run for the presidency of the union on reform ticket...
After the election, Miller made efforts to compensate victims of black lung disease and was, he said, "treated like dirt" by union officials. Suits filed by his group led to a new federally-supervised election, in which he was elected...
Died. John H. Gibbon Jr., 69, the cardiac surgeon who developed the first heart-lung machine successfully used on a human patient; of an apparent heart attack while playing tennis; in Philadelphia. Gibbon spent 19 years perfecting the device that could take over heart and lung functions during heart surgery. In its first application to a human in 1953, the device worked perfectly for 26 minutes, permitting Gibbon to repair a hole in the heart of an 18-year-old girl. She survived, and Gibbon's achievement opened the way to a variety of heart operations, including transplants...