Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SURGEONS dream of the day when they will be able to replace any worn-out or damaged human organ with a spare part, either artificially made or taken from another person. That medical Utopia seems to be coming closer. Last week a little boy with a ruptured aorta was technically dead for 2¾ hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature...
...Journal's eight-man staff also stands diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat has to be mentioned...
...Populaire, organ of France's Socialist Party, praised the Prime Ministers for establishing "an equilibrium between political and military imperatives." And in Belgium the Roman Catholic Het Volk took comfort in the thought that "the Russians will be placed face to face with clear and concrete disarmament proposals. If the Soviets refuse again, a period of painful pessimism may follow, but at least the world will know where it stands...
...still a spectacular citizen. He tools around Palo Alto in a 1936 Mercedes-Benz touring car, or a 1931 Dusenberg (original price: $19,000), lives alone in a bungalow that looks like a highbrow junk pile. Some items: five aquariums for tropical fish, antique Oriental sculpture, a reed organ, a library on Mayan architecture. There, looking like an outsize Dylan Thomas, he delights in cooking dinners (Creole, French, Italian, Scandinavian or Oriental) for as many as 35 guests...
...general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following a performance, Flagstad herself appeared in Aase's dressing room and announced: "You are my successor...