Word: organism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pancreas manufactures insulin essential for the utilization of sugar and other carbohydrates, the patients most likely to need a transplanted pancreas are victims of the severe juvenile form of diabetes. The pancreas, said Minneapolis' Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, is so inaccessible that it is the only major organ that is harder to get out of the donor than to put into the recipient. He has made three grafts of an entire pancreas, with the patient surviving 41 months in the most successful case. Be cause all three died of infection rather than rejection of the graft, Lillehei declared confidently...
...insurance adjuster who picked up extra cash by giving electric-organ lessons on the side, the heavy-handed elder McLain was a semipro shortstop in his youth. He started Denny on his lessons early?both at the keyboard and on the diamond. Denny had trouble deciding which he liked best, the organ or baseball. "He'd be having a game in the park across the street," his mother remembers, "and he'd call Time!' and run into the house and play a couple of songs on the organ. Everybody would have to wait for him, and he'd play...
...father died at 36. His father died at 36. And his father died at 32. I'm in a little better shape than my father, and I can do a lot in 16 years." With that, Pitcher Denny McLain goes whomp, whomp on the pedals ?and the sweet organ music floats past...
When he was not playing the organ, Denny was playing ball. By the time he was eight, he was the star pitcher for a Little League team in Markham, blazing them past kids three and four years older. He still brags about his record. "Nobody could hit me. I was too fast." No one could catch him either. "I'd throw the ball to my brother Tim, and he used to fall down," says Denny! "He was only four feet five inches tall...
...ringing with calls from people pleading with him to visit their store, appear at their nightclub, endorse their product. On the road, Denny's current roommate, Shortstop Ray Oyler, has taken to answering the phone: "Mr. McLain's office." Denny is already scheduled for post-season appearances, playing the organ on the Ed Sullivan Show and at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Capitol is preparing a record album by the Denny McLain Quintet, with Denny playing such standards as Lonely Is the Name and a new song, Extra Innings, that he says has "a dirty beat." There...