Word: spitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice is harrowing. In the dream, Bing hems and haws, but a decision must be made. The three divas' pet dogs advance on him. Zinka's spitz, Nickie, growls; Maria's poodle, Toy, nips at his ankles; and Renata's poodle, New, crouches to jump. "Choose, choose, choose!" sing the divas, to some nightmare melody that sounds like Alban Berg played backwards...
...Institute also released information regarding the death of Alpha I, the first Sputnik's rocket, which should come to earth over the weekend. Dr. Armand Spitz of the Smithsonian staff stated that the "actual death of Alpha should be a spectacular event, a bright flashing streak visible for hundreds of miles...
Though it is impossible to predict where it will fall, since most of the earth is water and uninhabited land, the fall may not be within human eyesight, Dr. Spitz asserted. He said that the flash would be brilliant at night and possibly so bright that it could be visible in the daytime...
...Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, Neurosurgeon Eugene Spitz, 37, tried running a tube direct from baby Charles' head to his abdomen. It worked only for a few days at a time, then another operation was needed to clean it. To the father Dr. Spitz explained that he would like to drain the brain fluid into the jugular vein. But this would need a valve (to prevent back flow by the blood), and so far no satisfactory valve had been devised-they all had a tendency to clog...
...Spitz opened the baby's jugular, made an opening between the vein and one of the fluid-filled brain cavities, set the valve into the opening, and closed the skin over it. The valve worked. In less than two weeks Charles Holter went home. Last week, nearing his first birthday, he was still doing well. Though fluid might continue to collect for the rest of his life, it could drain off through the valve, which would stay in place. Pediatricians, who had just heard Dr. Spitz's report, were hopeful that his technique and Holter's valve...