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...youngster is the victim of severe aplastic anemia, a rare, puzzling disease in which the bone marrow loses its ability to produce three essential components of blood: the white cells that fight infection, the red cells that transport oxygen to the tissues, and platelets for clotting. Only by confining Teddy to the superclean room and giving him repeated transfusions have doctors managed to keep him alive...
...each year and kills 50% to 80% of them within a matter of months. Doctors do not know the ailment's causes; genetic factors, radiation, viruses and such chemicals as benzines have all been implicated. But whenever anyone survives, it is usually because his bone marrow suddenly-and mysteriously-begins working again. Teddy, who is the son of a prominent cancer specialist, Dr. Vincent DeVita Jr., director of the division of cancer treatment at NCI, has shown little improvement. His marrow remains almost as inactive today as it was on Sept. 15, 1972, when he first entered his cubicle...
...Hendrix used to say." Says Miss Mary, Ernest Hemingway's widow (and Margaux's step-grandmother): "She was such a nice healthy kid, I hope nothing spoils her, natch." About her publicity-hating grandfather, Margaux is admiringly respectful, exulting: "Grandpa's spirit's in my marrow." But she prefers people to realize that it is Margaux, not Ernest, who is the big name today. She is even getting over her fear of competition. When Joan came to New York recently to promote the movie Rosebud, for which she had helped write the original novel, Margaux talked...
...here, in this vocation, at this late date, out of due time? To all the question is to imply an answer there: is a qui, a Who, who has set; we have not accidently fallen, we have been placed. As of course we already know in our marrow...
...lives in middle-income high-rises not far from one of the largest and dreariest cemetery complexes in the world. The story is about a young mother named Sandy Kaufman who must confront the irreversible truth that her 32-year-old husband is dying from multiple cancer of the marrow...