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Anyone who is considering purchasing a piano or organ will be misled by your article. Foreign imports such as Yamaha and Kawai are not better values than the Wurlitzer. I have sold Wurlitzer products for 20 years, as well as more than 40 other brands, including Japanese and Korean models. No other manufacturer has maintained the consistent high quality of Wurlitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1982 | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...Hospital, where Jamie lay waiting. Two offers turned out to be useful. One, a liver from a three-year-old on the East Coast, was not suitable for Jamie, but it saved the life of an older transplant patient at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The second organ came from a ten-month-old boy killed in a car-train collision in Utah. His father, Laird Bellon, had seen Fiske on television and specified that his son's liver should go to Jamie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Which Life Should Be Saved? | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Trying to obviate such ethical questions, the American Medical Association has issued guidelines stating that organs must be allocated to patients on a medical basis alone: "Social worth is not an appropriate criterion." Instead, the basic considerations are who needs it the most and who is the most likely to do well with the particular organ that is available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Which Life Should Be Saved? | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...ethics of Jamie Fiske's case were complicated by two facts: her parents had the resources and skills to find their own donor, and the donor's family specified that the liver of their child should go to Jamie, and Jamie alone. Once the organ was made available, doctors did use the A.M.A. guidelines. There were four babies at Pittsburgh equally suited to the transplant, but none had a greater need than Jamie. In addition, doctors at Pittsburgh were already busy with a liver transplant and could not handle a second one. "If another child had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Which Life Should Be Saved? | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...take them back. . . and refund the money paid for them." Richard Sears began his catalogue in 1888, and only a few years later was mailing millions of the "Consumer's Guides." Some of the goods promoted in the print-crammed folios look good today. How about a parlor organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catalogue Cornucopia | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

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