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...second row facing Judge Robert Dunne sat Cheryl's parents, Darrell Labrenz, 25, and his wife Rhoda, 20. They had been childhood sweethearts at Dalton (pop. 400) in Wisconsin's dairyland. Little more than a year ago, they joined Jehovah's Witnesses and moved to Chicago with their first child, Kit. (As often happens in cases of Rh incompatibility, there had been no difficulty with the first-born.) Now, red-eyed and distraught, each with a Bible in hand, they fought off the city health authorities...
...whole week Darrell and Rhoda Labrenz had rejected the appeals of their own obstetrician, Dr. William Wieand, and city health authorities, to allow a transfusion. In that week the brain might have been seriously damaged. Said Dr. Wieand: "We won't be able to tell a thing about that for eight or nine months." Darrell Labrenz, stubbornly opposed to all that had been done for Cheryl, said: "Those who forced the issue are the ones who are responsible for sinning." Said Rhoda Labrenz simply: "Of course I want my baby to live. And I pray that she does...
Strangely enough, the biggest house builder in the U.S. has built no house for himself. In winter he lives with his pretty wife Rhoda and their two sons, Bill Jr., 17, and Jimmy, 5, in a twelve-room Fifth Avenue apartment, which he rents for $4,900 a year. Summers they spend at Great Neck, L.I., in an English Tudor mansion (which Levitt rents for $7,500 a season) which has both a swimming pool and a private bathing beach on Long Island Sound. On summer weekends Bill sometimes plays golf (low 90s) with wife Rhoda...
...Rhoda Wenger was fed through nasal tubes. To find foods that her stomach would accept, dietitians tried everything: vitamins in liquid form, juices, beef broth. Sometimes the formula was changed several times...
Last week, a month early, and still unconscious, Rhoda Wenger gave birth to a 4 lb., 2¼ oz. girl. As the premature baby grew, Rhoda Wenger waned: despite five transfusions of hemoglobin, her weight was down to 85 pounds. Said the despairing father, still hospitalized in Washington: "I don't know how long she can keep fighting...