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Fellow nurses jostled for their autographs. Much as they obviously enjoyed the limelight, they discussed their experience in cool, shoptalk tones, insisting that a heart transplant is really just another open-heart operation-an area of medicine in which they all are veterans...
...Operations." Immediately after the Washkansky operation last month, Mrs. Jarvis set about gathering material for a program to be pegged to the next such event. She shot biographical background footage on Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, interviewed his friends and medical colleagues, and filmed Barnard and his team as they performed open-heart surgery. She also discussed with Barnard the technical problems of covering the next heart-transplant operation, and came away with the impression that he would permit filming from behind a glass partition in the operating room...
...Pacific, Tom Hepworth, who runs a trading post, read in Modern Living of a worldwide vacation-home-exchange service based in Connecticut. He wrote the agency for help in finding someone in New Zealand who would trade homes so he could take his eight-year-old daughter there for open-heart surgery at Auckland's famed Greenlane Hospital. The agency went to work and ultimately our Auckland stringer, Bob Gilmore, joined in. The Hepworths found a place in Auckland. ¶When we did our Gemini rendezvous cover at the end of 1965, NASA's Director of Flight Operations...
Died. Thomas S. Lament, 68, retired vice chairman of the board of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and one of the last links with the freewheeling Morgan era of U.S. banking; after open-heart surgery; in Manhattan. The son of one of Morgan's closest associates, Lament went to work for J. P. Morgan & Co. in 1922, becoming a director and vice president in 1940, was prominent in the 1959 merger with the Guaranty Trust Co. to form the nation's fourth largest bank (current assets: $7.6 billion), then retired in 1964 to the somewhat less rigorous life...
Thomas S. Lamont '21, a member of the Harvard Corporation, died yesterday morning following open-heart surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He was 68 years...