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...blood flow can be safely stopped without a heart-lung machine. Then Dr. Cooley stitched up the artery and let normal blood flow resume. Immediately, the patient's blood pressure was a healthy 120 over 70. To protect her against the risk of renewed clotting, the great vein in her lower right flank was tied off. She went home in two weeks, and has remained well for months...
...into his office once and told me that he wanted me to help him bring M-G-M back to the top of the heap with quality pictures. Then he gave me my first assignment. It was something called Rape, Baby." Local Off-Color. Working in much the same vein is Jerry Wald, who recently announced that Peyton Place was going to be a grandfather. So successful was P.P.'s first sequel, Return to Peyton Place, that it will have a sequel of its own, Peyton Place Revisited. Like its predecessors, the new installment will first be written...
What made this otherwise routine case remarkable was that the donor was a dead boy of twelve, who had drowned in a nearby lake. After all attempts to revive him had failed, Pathologists Jack Kevorkian and Glenn W. Bylsma did an autopsy and withdrew two pints from a jugular vein. This was 2½ to 3 hours after death. To make sure that no germs had got into the blood (which would make it unsafe for transfusion), samples were incubated for two weeks. The woman patient had no unfavorable reactions to the transfusions of cadaver blood, is now well...
Corny? Sure. Funny? Yes-not in the tradition of the dry, understated comedy that made the British film industry famous after war's end but in the loud, raucous vein of I'm All Right, Jack...
...give the girls more clues to what the Houses may be like? By careful naming, perhaps the divisions of femininity may be tilted a certain way. What girl could not find her home, according to her lights, among Aspiration, Abnegation. Harmony and Hubrls Houses? Or, in another vein. Ambiguity, Casuistry, Gentility and Serendipity? This set would have the advantage that if a man didn't know what he wanted, he would know where to look...