Word: transplanters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
...only long-term survivor with another man's lung but with his own heart has been Alois Vereecken, a Belgian metalworker who lived ten months after a 1968 transplant. Edward Falk quickly regained consciousness, his new lungs took up their work of oxygenation, and at week's end his condition was described as good...