Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Toronto's Dr. Gordon Murray announced that he had operated on seven paralyzed patients by cutting, shortening and rejoining their spinal cords, neurosurgeons were incredulous. How could he have succeeded where so many others, equally skilled, had failed? Last week Toronto General Hospital issued a dismal and dismaying report on Dr. Murray's cases. A search of its records disclosed that in only one case had the spinal cord actually been cut, as Dr. Murray described. And this was not the case of Bertrand Proulx, whom Murray had exhibited at a fund-raising dinner (TIME...
Several people are writing up their trips: Sir Francis Chichester his sea adventures, Murray Kempton his sojourn in several American cities, Dan Wakefield a lengthy odyssey taken to find out what Americans think of Viet Nam, Norman Mailer's views of last October's protest march to the Pentagon...
...MURRAY BYRNE, M.P. Ballarat, Australia...
...Guildencrantz and Rosenstern, are Shakespeare's Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Tom Stoppard's hapless heroes. Buffeted about in the maelstrom of emotions and events at Elsinore. they are pulled out of their niches to do they know not what, nor to what purpose. Actors John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht respond like finely tuned instruments to Stoppard's inciteful prose and Derek Goldby's insightful direction...
Spare Kidneys. This explained why the first few kidney transplants, begun at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in the early 1950s, had failed. It also explained the success of Dr. Joseph E. Murray's first transplant of a kidney between identical twins, done at the Brigham in 1954. Since only one patient in 300 or more has an identical twin available-let alone willing-to donate a kidney, researchers in a dozen branches of medical science have been trying ever since to devise a way of switching off the immune or rejection mechanism long enough...