Word: nigro
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...became an international celebrity in 1967 after performing the world's first human heart transplant; in Cyprus. His patient died 18 days later, but Barnard's second transplant recipient survived for 19 months. His operations also pioneered the use of organs from brain-dead victims (see Eulogy). DIED. CARMINE NIGRO, 91, first chess teacher of Bobby Fischer, the former world champion; in Peachtree City, Georgia. In 1951, Nigro, then president of the Brooklyn Chess and Checkers Club, befriended the eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor...
...apparent World War II buff recommends "A Mind in Prison: The Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich" by Bruno Manz, "Wolfsangel : A German City on Trial 1945-48" by August J. Nigro and "In the Skies of Europe : Air Forces Allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945" by Hans Werner Neulen...