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...Organ Marathon. Musical experience not necessary. The person who can pound on an organ longest wins a mighty Wurlitzer. Contest starts Feb. 19. Call Mr. Herrick 482-6300 for entry blanks...
...Organ Marathon. Musical experience not necessary. The person who can pound on an organ longest wins a mighty Wurlitzer. Contest starts Feb. 19. Call Mr. Herrick 482-6300 for entry blanks...
...stop working. The patient whose liver can no longer metabolize and dispose of his body's poisonous wastes, however, eventually lapses into a coma and dies. Exchange transfusions to replace most of his blood may help for short periods, but no machine yet devised can substitute for the organ, and the livers of pigs and calves have proved inadequate to the task of cleansing human blood. Now it appears that in a liver coma crisis, man's best friend may be the dog-faced baboon...
...desire for naturalism is deliciously expressed in a fragment from a huge Tree of Jesse, which probably decorated the first organ installed in St. Leonard's in the 16th century: David, dancing a jig before the Lord. Exuberance, indeed, was the most endearing characteristic of these relatively provincial Flemish masters. St. Leonard's carved altarpiece of the life of St. Anne-it stands 9 ft. high and contains more than 75 figures-is a virtuoso piece, designed to astonish. But through its mannered intricacies, the dumpy Flemish women and men are arguing and gesturing, holding towels for childbirth...
Shevlin suffers from chronic kidney disease, an incurable type that necessitated the removal of the organ. Now, in order to prevent a fatal buildup of toxins in his blood, he must report to the university hospital three times a week for kidney dialysis, a six-hour cleansing process that enables him to survive until he can get a kidney transplant. Since his illness wiped out his small savings, Shevlin lives on welfare payments of $178 a month, while the State of California pays for most of the cost of his treatments -which amounts to $3,000 a month...