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...DIED. NORMAN SHUMWAY, 83, the first physician to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S.; in Palo Alto, Calif. His first transplant patient, in 1968, died of complications after 14 days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, a surgical mentor to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, pressed on as others were giving up. With an impressive Stanford University team, he found ways to use smaller doses of toxic antirejection drugs; was an early proponent of a safer alternative, cyclosporine; and dramatically improved transplant survival rates...
...DIED. NORMAN SHUMWAY, 83, the first physician to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S.; in Palo Alto, California. His first transplant patient, in 1968, died of complications after 14 days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, working with a Stanford University team, used smaller doses of toxic anti-rejection drugs and found other ways to dramatically improve transplant survival rates...
...Advocate has had T.S. Eliot, Theodore Roosevelt, and Norman Mailer. The Crimson has had FDR, JFK, Caspar Weinberger, etc. The Lampoon has had John Updike and even Elmer the Custodian. Past Presidents and Editors of the Yearbook include names such as George Feeney, Edward Kenyon, Roxane Harvey, Lee Smith, and Ken Meister—significant in their own right but not particularly etched in Harvard lore,” an excerpt from the yearbook’s website reads...
...DIED. NORMAN VAUGHAN, 100, dog sledder, explorer and the last surviving member of Admiral Richard Byrd's historic 1928 expedition to Antarctica; in Anchorage. As a mushing-obsessed Harvard student, he persuaded Byrd to bring him along as a dog driver. Affectionately dubbed "the Colonel" in his adopted home state of Alaska, he climbed the 10,302-ft. Mount Vaughan (named for him by Byrd) to celebrate his 89th birthday. His motto: "Dream big, and dare to fail...
...DIED. NORMAN VAUGHAN, 100, dog sledder, explorer and the last surviving member of Admiral Richard Byrd's historic 1928 expedition to Antarctica; in Anchorage. As a mushing-obsessed Harvard student, he persuaded Byrd to bring him along as a dog driver. Affectionately dubbed "the Colonel" in his adopted home state of Alaska, he climbed the 3,140-m Mt. Vaughan (named for him by Byrd) to celebrate his 89th birthday. His motto: "Dream big, and dare to fail...