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...Discouraged." Last week Pediatrician Helen B. Taussig, 64, who did the basic research on blue babies and suggested the operative approach to Surgeon Blalock, gave an encouraging report on the progress of the 1,700 patients who have had the blue-baby operation at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins. Among these and other victims of congenital heart defects, at least 235 with whom Dr. Taussig has been able to keep in close touch have become parents: 76 men and 159 women. In 160 pregnancies where the father had the heart defect, six children were born malformed, three had heart defects...
...rate of 1.8% for heart defects is about six times the normal average, said Dr. Taussig and Dr. Catherine A. Neill. Blue-baby mothers also had more spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) than the general population. But the researchers felt that the rates were not high enough to discourage former blue babies from attempting parenthood. Most of them can achieve it and have healthy offspring...
...striking case is that of Adele Roveda, whose heart defect was diagnosed in infancy before any corrective surgery had been devised. At 17, she had an early Blalock-Taussig operation, and another nine years later. Now 31, and married to Baltimorean Raymond W. Hepner Jr., she has a normal daughter almost three years old, and does her own housework...
Another blue-baby mother has had five normal children. Why the less fortunate ones lose their babies, Drs. Taussig and Neill are not certain. They doubt that it is simply because of oxygen shortage, but suspect that a little-understood hormone deficiency is involved...
National elections were pending. Frank W. Taussig, Felix Frankfurter and sixteen other professors out of twenty-five polled by the CRIMSON extolled Roosevelt; the University listened and then supported Hoover 3-2 in the annual straw vote. Three weeks later the country went along with the professors. In post-election analysis, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, decided that Herbert Hoover ought to resign before March 4--as so many people were urging--since "Roosevelt could not get a new Congress with which to work, and therefore it would be useless." The CRIMSON had already decided that it made...