Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Between self-revealing dream sequences, Borg is busy talking to his bitterly perceptive daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), arguing and making-up with his stout-hearted housekeeper (Julan Kindahl), and experiencing three impossibly youthful hitch-hikers and an actress-and-husband couple whom he has picked up on the road to the university...
Surgery by itself has made such strides that most authorities (including many surgeons) figure that it is nearing the end of the road. Thanks to advances in general surgical techniques and patient care, it is now possible to remove huge masses of tissue, including whole organs and limbs. Hence the grim jest: "They put the specimen to bed and sent the patient to the laboratory." For some cancers there is no doubt that "radical" (meaning drastic and extensive) surgery has pro longed useful life. (The University of Minnesota's famed Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei's most productive...
Born at what he calls a "wide place in the road" named Fair Play, S.C. (40 miles southwest of Greenville), Heller is the son and grandson of physicians, had a brother and an uncle with M.D.s. Yet when he entered Clemson College at 16, Rod went into engineering. He switched to the family tradition in time to get his M.D. from Atlanta's Emory University in 1929. Joining up with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1931, he began hopscotching around on two-year tours of anti-VD duty. In 1934 Dr. Heller married Susie May Ayres, daughter...
...raised her-except for a brief period when she was kidnaped by some passing Indians-as his daughter. At 17, Isabel saw a performance of Robin Hood, decided then and there that she wanted to be an actress, ran away from home and got a job in the road company of Wang, under the name of Belle Livingstone. When father ordered her home. Belle simply stuck out her well-developed chest in defiance, walked up to the first man she saw-he happened to be a traveling salesman-and murmured: "Will you have an orange?" He allowed...
That, as far as Belle was concerned, was the end of the glory road, but she lived on for another quarter-century-"still preferring forbidden fruit, still daring to pick it." and writing her memoirs with the help -of English Teacher Myra Chipman. Two years ago, in a "basement hovel" in Manhattan's East Fifties. Belle died at the age of 82, having designed her own tombstone with the inscription: "This is the only stone I have left unturned...