Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leon and Leonard Masden, 19, identical twins from Shepherdsville, Ky., went under the knife at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a kidney transplant authorized by court order (TIME, June 24). In a six-hour operation Leonard's left kidney was transplanted to Leon. This week the surgeons reported that, so far, both patients are doing well, that the transplanted kidney is functioning...
...forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it." With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a Philadelphia artist named John Maass has written a book (The Gingerbread Age; Rinehart; $7.95) defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build...
...tiche on the Luxembourg border, holds doctorates in theology and canon law, seems constantly to be ricocheting from one Franciscan province to another (he has visited England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, the Holy Land and the U.S.). At his Roman offices in the Franciscan Curia General, near St. Peter's, he rises at 5 a.m. for Mass, works most nights until midnight. Said Father Sépinski of his reelection: "I think the next twelve years will kill me, but it doesn't matter. The Franciscan spirit is stronger than ever in the world...
...canvases was sold for the highest known price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting: Gauguin's Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery for $80.000. "So what?" shrugged one French woman, about the price and profit. "Apples are expensive...
...kidney function, suffers also from congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, anemia. His only chance of survival, say the doctors, is the transplant of a kidney from his healthy twin brother Leonard. Such transplants have been made successfully three times by surgeons at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. (Use of an identical twin is necessary to avoid the risk of hostile antibodies developing in the recipient's system.) But in the case of the Masden boys, the problem is not only medical but legal. Unlike the earlier cases, the Masdens are minors. Argue the lawyers: not even...