Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this case also, the eventual donor had no thought of her own death when she talked to her husband about heart transplants. Virginia Mae White, 43, had never had a serious illness as she celebrated the 22nd anniversary of her wedding to Charles W. ("Bill") White. Next evening, she had a massive brain hemorrhage and was taken to El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, only eight miles from Stanford. When her doctors said there was no hope, White asked whether there was any type of research going on relating to what had happened to his wife-"something where she could...
...unit, a fellow resident with Cape Town's Dr. Barnard at the University of Minnesota and the developer of the heart-transplant technique first used by Barnard. Shumway asked about a possible transplant. White talked it over with his children, Judith, 18, and Richard, 12. He also consulted Virginia's mother. They all said...
...Baker mocks "overstates," the "crisis-glut" and determined problem solvers. "A solved problem creates two new problems," he writes, "and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to." A sober Washington reporter himself until a sense of futility overcame him, Virginia-born Baker became the Times's first humor columnist six years ago. He uses humor, he says, "to strike a blow for sanity...
...face of those statistics, the mutual-fund business is a welcome new sideline for insurance firms. A case in point is the relatively small Life Insurance Co. of Virginia: in the first ten months after launching its own First Fund of Virginia, its agents sold $900,000 worth of shares. Besides opening new markets, Michigan-based Federal Life & Casualty Co., a Channing subsidiary, has found that the mutual fund helps agents sell more insurance. Much of it, to be sure, is of the low-cost term variety that expires when the policyholder reaches a specified age. The fact that such...
Cinematically, the chief influence on Nichols remains the photographer of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Haskell Wexler, also cameraman on In The Heat of The Night. When the sun shines, Nichols points his camera at it; if a car approaches the camera, Nichols bounces the headlights off the lens; should a character jump into the water, Nichols makes the camera jump into the water; and as mood becomes essential, well, Nichols can always shoot it with a shaky hand-held camera...