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Michael Ellis DeBakey. son of a Lebanese immigrant who had made good in Lake Charles, La., wanted to be a physician-specifically, a surgeon. Soon after graduation from Tulane University School of Medicine, interning at New Orleans' vast Charity Hospital, young Dr. DeBakey invented a pump that he hoped might some day relieve or replace the heart during delicate surgery. That was in 1932, and the inventive intern was about 20 years ahead of his time...
...damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials, he inched closer to the heart. By 1956, with specially knit synthetic tubing (better for many cases than artery-bank material), and an oxygenator fitted to an updated model of his 1932 pump, Dr. DeBakey was able to operate within a couple of inches of the heart, and stop its beat at will...
...famed Winchell legwork has slackened to an amble. His Manhattan jungle prowls are intermittent now; he prefers to let his 40-odd faithful squad of Broadway volunteers pump up the bulk of the gossip. When he does walk abroad, he likes to visit the scenes of old triumphs: "This is where I got Lepke." He is often alone-an isolation the big game he once stalked is pleased not to invade. He was seen alone recently at Rashomon, at the Louis Prima-Keely Smith opening at the Copacabana, and the other night he sat peaceably at Sardi...
...maintain its world leadership. With spending bills blooming in every congressional committee room, the President's budget seemed as doomed as a wounded impala before a pack of hungry leopards. Ike's no-retreat stand has helped ward off the fiscal marauders ; the economic boom has made pump-priming seem fatuous. Yet, most of all, under Charlie Halleck's House leadership, spending bill after spending bill has been either trimmed to size or killed by vetos the Democrats could not override. With the 86th Congress, first session already past the midway point, the balanced budget appears...
...gates for choice vantage points when the gates open at 5 a.m. on Memorial Day, the Belond ran into trouble. In a practice run, the car seized up on Driver Jimmy Bryan. Mechanics tore it apart, worked 18 hours straight on its battered engine, badly damaged when the oil pump failed. They got it back in action, and Bryan proved the car was as good as new by qualifying at an average speed of 142.118 m.p.h...