Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calvin Richmond, 13, had been badly crushed when he fell under a truck near Pine Bluff, Ark. In the membranes separating the chambers of his heart were three holes which allowed the blood to flow inefficiently back and forth. The University of Minnesota's team of heart repairmen, headed by Dr. Clarence Walton Lillehei, needed a "dry field" (the heart drained of blood) if they were to operate successfully. A Toronto-born colleague, Dr. Gilbert Campbell, 31, offered them the dog's lung to attain this. (He had already used lungs in 100 experimental operations with animals...
Also a Five-Ton Truck. An outspoken, hardheaded Alsatian who fought as a private in the French army in World War II, Father Bureth was first assigned to Brazzaville in 1945, was back in France within a few months with heart trouble and a doctor's warning that the tropics were not for him. But St. Anne's (started as a memorial to French soldiers) needed money, and Father Bureth organized some unemployed Africans in France into a song-and-dance group. He took them on a triumphal tour of the country, and francs rolled into the church...
...which he is held. His anger can indeed be awe-inspiring. Once, when he discovered that a native was being slowly poisoned by an uncle who wanted his property. Father Bureth broke into the man's hut, threatened to flatten both uncle and hut with his five-ton truck. The poisoning process stopped...
...Glass Slipper (M-G-M), Hollywood feels about as comfortable with Leslie Caron as a truck driver does with a beret-whatever it is, it's not normal. Everybody loved her in Lili (TIME, March 9' . 1953)) but what was it everybody loved? Was she pretty? Not by the usual U.S. standards. Could she act? In Lili it was hard to tell whether she was acting, or just doing what came naturally. "She's gamine," the critics said. The producers asked their wives what that meant, and decided that, as usual, the critics were wrong. A studio...
...Romulus; United Artists) is just a little ricochet romance, U.S. style. Three men in a pub (Richard Basehart, John Ireland, Stanley Baker), all decent fellows but down on their luck, meet a fourth (Laurence Harvey), who persuades them to steal a shipment of old bank notes from a mail truck. When the job is done, the villain slaughters all three of his accomplices, but in the last reel the meat wagon comes around for him, too. The playing is brisk, but the story takes too long to untangle itself. The good die somewhat...