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...Children's Hospital, across the street from the Brigham, a twelve-year-old boy died June 17 from head injuries suffered in an auto accident. His parents, who refuse to be identified, consented to the transplant. While three surgeons removed and cooled the liver to retard deterioration, Dr. Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963) and his Brigham team prepared Tommy Gorence to receive it. It was, says Moore, "a very arduous job because of the whopping size of Tommy's liver." Just to get at it entailed making three heroic incisions, two horizontal and one vertical...
...income families receive their prenatal care and have their deliveries through the clinic because of its convenience and low cost. The argumments for "conservatism" vis a vis family planning in Cambridge are not substantive. Having Catholics on the Board of Trustees (three out of five) should not retard progress if the example of Cardinal Cushing on the Board of the Boston City Hospital is followed. Cardinal Cushing preached ecumenicism of spirit and "private conscience" in approving the Boston City Hospital's liberal policy. Some, peripheral in power but not in the power of suggestion, attempted to make the hospital...
...number of writers will get double exposure. Marshall McLuhan will retard his predicted disappearance of books by publishing a consideration of space in poetry and painting, and a sequel to his picture treatise, The Medium is the Massage. MacKinley Kantor has a book of reminiscences and an antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe...
...Wednesday, across the room from the recipient baby, who was being kept alive in a respirator that supplied him almost 100% oxygen. Since heart-lung machines are impractical for such small infants, the 22-man transplant team chilled the dead baby's body to retard damage to the heart. The doctors had already begun cooling the recipient baby in a water bath to 59 °F. After 40 minutes, they were ready to cut. One group excised the dead baby's heart while another excised the recipient's. In a mere 30 minutes Dr. Kantrowitz was able...
...possible that repeated exposure to realistic male genitalia would complicate and even retard this aspect of development. Sexual openness in a seven-year-old child is not necessarily a virtue...