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When Hurricane Audrey roared up toward the Gulf Coast last summer (TIME, July 8), the only physician in the marshland town of Cameron (pop. 3,000), at the southwestern corner of Louisiana, was Cecil William Clark, 33, who ran a community medical center with a twelve-bed hospital. Dr. Clark was confident that his new brick house would ride out the storm, but he was worried about the frame clinic building (with only a brick veneer) and its eight bedfast patients. Leaving their three youngest children at home with a maid, Dr. Clark and his wife Sybil (a nurse-anesthetist...
...Audrey was ahead of the forecasters' schedule and piling up an unexpectedly high tide. The wind-lashed, rising water covered the road, blocked Dr. Clark's car. He turned back, took his wife home. He tried again to get through in a neighbor's pickup, failed again, but managed to telephone his "get-out" order to the clinic. Helped by deputy sheriffs with boats, the nurses got the patients to the safety of the solidly built parish courthouse. Dr. Clark tried to walk back home, but waist-deep water forced him to shelter in a concrete-block...
...Louisiana-born doctor and his wife, there was still much work to be done in death-dealing Audrey's wake. The medical center was swept off its foundations and badly damaged; all equipment, supplies and records were destroyed. By now, much of it has been renovated, and in the works is a new eight-room wing...
Married. Don Larsen, 28, New York Yankee pitcher and baseball immortal (the only perfect game in World Series history, against the Brooklyn Dodgers last year); and onetime Airline Stewardess Corrine Audrey Bruess, 26; he for the second time, she for the first; in Benson, Minn...
...Bird. In Ventura, Calif., Audrey Martin got a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty after she told the judge that toward the end of their 25th year of marriage her husband Albert rarely spoke to her, proved by the fact that their parakeet's favorite saying was now: "Did you hear me, Albert...