Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open a scarred mitral valve in June 1945. Through an accident (no fault of Bailey's) the patient bled to death. Misfortune beset him in three other cases. Not until June 10, 1948 did he have a "good risk" patient at Philadelphia's Episcopal Hospital. Mrs. Melville Ward, 24, of East Orange, N.J., an invalid for five years, had been told she had six months to live. Bailey slipped his finger through the "tail" of the auricle (the "appendage"), slid a knife along it and slit the joined valve leaves apart. Eight days later Claire Ward went...
Raider Louis Wolfson, who temporarily retired from the public eye after his unsuccessful attempt to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward (TIME, Oct. 8), was on the prowl again last week. He was casting a covetous eye on ailing American Motors Corp. ($2,994,613 loss in first quarter of fiscal 1957). Wolfson announced that he and his family have increased their holdings in the company by 110,000 shares to 350,000, giving him the largest single block, though only 6%, of the 5,670,430 shares outstanding...
...richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses is making nightly trips across the roof of the huge house to her ward's bedroom, she lets fly with a shotgun...
...Miss Ward, who replaced an ailing James Reston on the program, said that Britain had increased the number of able men in public service by "diminishing the class content" of the government and by giving government scholarships to promising students, but that the lures of industry and of emigration keep many out of the public life...
...Miss Ward suggested that "if we made a rule that higher civil servants would have to work, for instance, on a gang in Texas, we should be getting somewhere...