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...obscure Negro schoolteacher from Indianapolis has made surgical history. Louis B. Russell Jr. has surpassed the record for heart-transplant survival set by Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, who lived for 594 days after his operation. Although Blaiberg was depicted as being hale and hearty as a Rotarian greeter, a recent book by his widow reveals that he was miserably uncomfortable, if not downright ill during most of his life with his new heart. Russell, who at week's end had survived 603 days, appears to be in far better shape than Blaiberg...
...reason may be Russell's age: Blaiberg was 58 when he received his new heart; Russell will be only 45 this week. Also, Blaiberg's heart disease was of long standing and had damaged other major organ systems before the transplant, but Russell's heart attacks, in 1962 and 1965, had caused no such widespread difficulties. Finally, in 1968, Indianapolis Cardiologist Robert Chevalier diagnosed heart disease of such severity that only a new heart could give Russell a chance for survival. He referred Russell to Surgeon Richard Lower at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Lower...
...April issue seems to be made up almost completely of dull material rejected from the three old magazine parodies. Kenney, Beard, and Hoffman have a Plaything of the Month, a "Schoenstein Report" by Dr. Ralph Schoenstein (reminiscent of the heart transplant article in the Life parody), and a page poking fun at Jackie Onassis-made up of ribbings not good enough for the Time parody...
Married. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 47, South African heart transplant pioneer turned man-about-international society; and Barbara Zoellner, 19, swinging daughter of a wealthy South African industrialist, once dubbed "Johannesburg's most eligible bachelor girl"; he for the second time (he was divorced last August by his wife of 21 years on grounds of desertion); in a civil ceremony; in Johannesburg...
...happens, to his subject. For his heart belongs to that peculiar, sprawling, provincial, shabby, comic, still Dickensian conglomeration known as Greater London. That, too, is for the best. Social comedy like Pritchett's might easily turn sour if it were not based on a heart that resists transplant...