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They created a committee called Persephone and held their first benefit for the New York-based Cooley's Anemia Foundation, says co-chairman Irfan Ali '89. Ali says Persephone chose to raise money for the foundation because it felt its contributions could have an effect on the charity's small budget...
...always, there were uplifting vignettes. As Alicia bore down on Houston during the predawn hours of Thursday, Surgeon Denton Cooley, who had finally been able to find a suitable heart donor for a 48-year-old patient, performed a successful transplant. At St. Mary's Hospital in Galveston, the wife of a Coast Guard yeoman seaman gave birth to a baby girl. She was named (what else?) Alicia...
...happens, Kate had sniffed danger and summoned from San Francisco a lawyer she kept on retainer for occasions like this. By the time Attorney Dade Cooley, an urbane 60-year-old, and his astute wife Ellen reach the Toulouse-Carcassonne canal, Kate has just surfaced, as dead as Ophelia, in a lock. In a classic, Christie-precise scenario, Cooley discovers that the murders almost certainly involve Kate's obsessive desire to own a priceless 35-carat ruby, a relic of the Crusades, which was stolen and has been missing for several years...
...Cooley, as unflappable as his name suggests, takes over the investigation with flak and authority. He receives admirable support from the one-eyed Inspector Marbeau of Castelnaudary, a Cyclops properly impressed to find that the San Franciscan knows la belle France like the back of his land. Author Gene Thompson also knows French history, terrain, customs and cuisine, and has created a series of suspects who are only too plausible. By the punch line, one wishes they could all have been guilty...
...artificial hearts. Said Dr. Michael DeBakey, the noted heart-transplant surgeon from Houston: "To be a success, the heart must restore the individual to normal life. If all it does is keep the patient alive, it has not succeeded." DeBakey and fellow Houston Transplant Expert Denton Cooley therefore favor transplants, which now offer recipients a 70% to 80% chance of surviving a year and a 42% chance of living five years. The best use of the mechanical heart, says Cooley, may be "to sustain a patient until a donor heart can be found...