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Douglas did indeed buy a new car* -a $4,000 Javelin with racing stripes -two months later. According to his Bucknell acquaintances, Convict Douglas was a high liver. He dated frequently, drank expensive Scotch, smoked imported cigarettes and sported around in a flashy mod wardrobe...
...protégé at the same university, Dr. Hector DeLuca, says that the stuff is not a vitamin like the other simple, essential components in food, but a hormonal substance with a complex biochemical role. DeLuca also has evidence that the substance must undergo metabolic changes in the liver and kidneys before it can perform its function of regulating calcium levels in bone and blood. Whatever scientists may decide about the true nature of the basic D material, DeLuca concedes that the misnomer on milk cartons and bread wrappers will probably stick...
...Francisco in an insulated container, the thymus was implanted during a three-hour procedure. That proved relatively easy. Many other transplants must be hooked up to the circulatory system in order to function properly; the thymus, requiring no connection, is merely placed in the abdominal cavity. Maggie's liver and spleen, which had become enlarged during her illnesses, have decreased in size. She is now at home, and her immunological system appears to be working normally...
Died. Walter Lang, 73, motion-picture director for 36 years; of liver failure following surgery; in Palm Springs, Calif. Hollywood was making silent movies when Lang arrived in 1925, but he made the jump into talkies, Technicolor and wide screens with ease. He directed nearly 40 films including Cheaper by the Dozen, Call Me Madam, Can Can and The King...
Debra Jackson, 13, had previously undergone three complete exchange transfusions, yet remained comatose. Six hours after being connected to a baboon liver, she made spontaneous movements and showed normal reflexes. After 13½ hours, she spoke; in two weeks she was walking. Although it took three months of intensive hospital treatment to make her fully healthy again, she is now back at school. The second patient, Mrs. Yvonne Royster, 24, had a similar experience; seven months after treatment, say the doctors, "she was in excellent health looking after her children and working as a part-time waitress...