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...died young and full of melancholy. Eloquent escape artists in flight from reality, they contrived, if possible, to be afflicted alike with consumption and unrequited love-both, it was firmly understood, great heighteners of poetic sensibility. Then, like dying nightingales singing their hearts out while impaled upon the thorn of the everyday world, they poured forth their pain in richly draped iambics...
Convenient Deaths. Fortune and a delicate skill in personnel placement did wonders for his position: both his teacher, Vouet, whom he was to replace as dean of Parisian artists, and an early rival, Eustache Le Sueur, conveniently died. Sighed Le Brun: "Death has relieved me of a thorn in the foot." Astutely, he promoted a French Academy in Rome, and with characteristic magnanimity dispatched his chief surviving Paris rival, Charles Errard, to be its rector...
...George W. Thorn, the Brigham's physician in chief, and Surgeon Carl W. Walter modified Kolff's early model, which he had built in secret during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands; and for patients whose kidney failure was only temporary, the contraption was a lifesaver. But it could not keep alive those whose kidneys had failed permanently. In 1951, in a desperate effort to save these patients, Brigham surgeons decided to go ahead and transplant kidneys without waiting for the mysteries of immunity to be dispelled. But all those "unprotected"' transplants eventually failed...
...once safely at West Virginia, Thorn seemed something of a gilt-edged bust. An A student in high school, he fretted about missing classes when the team was on the road, stayed up so late studying that his basketball suffered. In a Southern Conference tournament, Thorn fired a shot at the basket from just 20 ft. away -and missed the backboard by 10 ft. Confused and exhausted, Thorn developed insomnia and a chronic sore throat. At length, he dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally...
Look, Two Hands. Last season. Thorn was back in school, determined to get a grip on himself. Rival fans called him "Psycho" and "Bugs," but Rod refused to be rattled. "No more hysterics," he says. "No more punching the lockers. If I had a bad night-well, I just had a bad night." Thorn piled up 688 points, sparked the Mountaineers to a 24-6 season and a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs...