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DIED. Preston Morris Burch, 93, Thoroughbred racing trainer who worked magic with unspectacular mounts and literally wrote the book on his trade, Training Thoroughbred Horses; in Dunn Loring, Va. Son of a successful trainer and the father of another, Elliott Burch, he saddled the winners of 1,236 races (George Smith, White Clover II, Bold) during a career that stretched from 1920 to 1957, and his horses earned more than $6.2 million...
...conversation. America's last known billionaire, the reclusive Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, who scraped together $25 at the age of nine to buy a sunken boat and now operates one of the world's largest shipping fleets, made a rare public appearance last week in Richmond, Va. The occasion was the transfer to the state of Virginia of Leesylvania, a 485-acre tract once in the hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled...
OTHER PLAYERS TO WATCH: Fish and Lundy are both very bright on Bob Horn, a freshman from Wheeling, W. Va. and today's substitite at number-six. Juniors John Fishwick, Al Bunis and Dick Arnos trail Horn on the ladder...
...fact, the VA study did have limitations. It failed to emphasize that among the patients given only medication, 17% eventually had to have bypass surgery to relieve angina. In a similar federal study, fully a third of the patients initially treated only with drugs chose surgery within 2½ years. The VA study's report of a 5.6% mortality rate also came under attack; several centers had already cut that rate to 3% during the study's 1972-74 period, and in some it is now down to less than...
Still, when the shouting finally died down, the VA investigators and their critics were closer to agreement than they admitted. Both emphasized the proper selection of patients. The surgeons conceded that most patients with chronic but stable angina (probably indicating only one blocked coronary artery) do not need a costly bypass. Most also agreed that for victims of the severest disease, characterized by a blockage in the left main coronary artery (a condition that Effler aptly calls "the widow-maker"), surgery is all but mandatory. The same is true for patients with progressive or uncontrollable angina who have...