Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have had if the names had kept switching. When Society Columnist Aileen Mehle came along, she was dubbed Suzy Knickerbocker, and she took the name with her when she joined the New York Daily News. Then, too, when a publication runs more than one piece by the same person in the same issue, it often insists on a pseudonym. Freelance Writer Ken Purdy contributed two articles to a recent Playboy, one under his own name, one under that of Karl Prentiss. Even when they give up their real names, pseudonymists often like to hang on to their real initials...
...they tried to make their dreams reality, they found themselves encaged by invisible but seemingly invincible forces, mysterious beyond their understanding. Italian surgeons during the Renaissance occasionally succeeded in repairing a sword-slashed nose or ear with flesh from the patient's own arm, but got nowhere with person-to-person grafts. The first widely attempted transplants were blood transfusions, from lamb to man or man to man. Almost all failed-in many cases, fatally-and no one knew why a few succeeded. Skin grafts, often attempted after burns, slough off after a few weeks unless they are taken...
...Britain's Sir Peter Brian Medawar revealed details of the immune mechanism involving the white blood cells. These are the body's main line of defense against viruses, which have protein coatings, and against many other germs. They react just as strongly against any "foreign" (meaning another person's) protein. They make antibody to destroy such invaders...
Every normal person has two kidneys, and since he can live on one, that means he has one to spare. The corpses of healthy people killed in accidents provide two. So although the demand still far exceeds the supply, the kidney transplanter's problem is minor compared with that of the surgeon who would transplant a liver. Each man has only one, and cannot live without it. The world's pioneer in transplanting livers, Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Colorado, has obtained 15 so far, with encouraging results in four recent operations on little girls (TIME...
Dean Ford said yesterday that he had asked the Masters to report to him the name of any ineligible person elected to the committee. "If he is on pro, he will not be invited to the meeting, and if he is not invited he won't get in the door," Ford said...