Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost three years, twelve-year-old Martin had been living in hospitals or convalescent homes. He is back home now in the fifth-floor, $44-a-month Manhattan walk-up apartment with his mother & father, grandmother, younger sister and older brother. Martin still suffers from rheumatic heart disease (caused by rheumatic fever), is still bedfast, still needs the kind of medical care that hospitals give. He is getting that kind of care now at home...
...last week, Martin sat cross-legged on his bed and waited for the regular visit of his doctor. Panting a bit after the climb, Dr. Dennison Young, 36, greeted him with a cheery "How are you feeling?", nodded when the boy replied, "I'm pretty good, but my neck's still stiff." Once a month, to test Martin's heart, Dr. Young lugs a 30-lb. portable electrocardiograph up the stairs (the doctor grumbles good-naturedly that "they all seem to live at the very top or the very bottom...
...Project to Watch. Martin is one of twelve children (eight boys, four girls), ranging in age from 4 to 17, who are being treated at home for rheumatic heart disease by The Bronx's Montefiore Hospital. The experiment, begun last October as part of Montefiore's broader plan for home care, is being carried out with the help of $52,600 from the New York Heart Association.* The project is being watched closely by hospitals all over...
Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...
...Flaxy Martin (Warner) is a chain reaction of horror and violence. A gullible young lawyer (Zachary Scott) is in love with a double-crossing blonde (Virginia Mayo). He imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott...