Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their separate cribs, set in corners so that they faced foot to foot, each of the twins had a special-duty nurse watching over him the clock around. Also present, almost constantly, was Pediatrician Herbert J. Grossman, waiting to flag the surgeons when the time came to operate again. For the doctors were convinced that neither twin could get much better without a top to his brainpan (now closed lightly with plastic, metal foil and bandage). The longer the brain cavities remained unsealed, the greater the danger of a fatal infection. So far. neither of the babies was strong enough...
Each of the twin boys in Chicago's University of Illinois Hospital was as cute as a button. At 15 months they both had handsome, well-formed bodies, twinkling, dark blue eyes and bewitching smiles. They loved to play pat-a-cake, could say "Hi," "Mama," "Dada," and "Nite-nite." They had just learned to say "Frog" too, because mother & father had brought them each a rubber frog. Rodney Dee Brodie was a bit smaller than Roger Lee Brodie, so Rodney got more attention. This made Roger mad, and he showed it by swatting Rodney across the face...
...Mississippi, by rare coincidence, another pair of skull-joined twin boys was in the news. One of the four-month-old boys died suddenly; his twin died with in hours before surgeons could free him. In Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital, twin girls were born with a band of cartilage joining them at the chest. Dr. Jac Geller cut the babies apart ("Really very simple," he said), and both were soon doing well in incubators. After such a superficial link, they have every chance of growing up to be normal women, and with hardly a scar to show...
...Jumbo Gerry Mahoney, twin brother of the Crimson's Frank, who finally broke Hathaway's spell at 17:30, after the Harvard defense had eliminated itself from the play by an untimely collision, Hathaway, however, played a good, steady game...
Against B.U., the Jumbos held down the score for one period, then fell apart; that may well be the way the game goes tonight. The team's second highest scorer, by the way, is first line wing Jerry Mahoney, twin brother of the Crimson's third line stalwart, Frank Mahoney...