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Jack Burcham survived for only ten days with his implant last April, but, says his wife Jinx, the experience seemed "a long, long terrible nightmare." Margaret Schroeder, enduring the longest bedside vigil of all, has spent months at a time in Louisville, 100 miles from her home. Last September she became so exhausted that she was hospitalized. She rarely gives interviews but told Annas that "she felt she was a prisoner of the artificial heart." Concern about their mother has added to the stress on the six Schroeder children. "The only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital...
DIED. Eric Milliard ("Ricky") Nelson, 45, clean-cut rock singer and former teenage idol who grew up on TV's longest-running family sitcom, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-66) performing such early recordings as A Teenager's Romance (1957), Poor Little Fool (1958) and others, which sold more than 35 million copies by the time he was 21; in a DC-3 crash that also killed his fiancée and five members of his band; near De Kalb, Texas. Nelson had difficulty shedding his adolescent image after the TV program's demise, and his albums did poorly...
...longest and most violent U.S. strikes since World War II, and it summoned images of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys. By the time it ended last month, the United Mine Workers' 15-month walkout against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. had left one person dead and hundreds wounded, and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage on both sides of the Kentucky-West Virginia line...
...world's longest-running erotic stage musical," as it is now billed, has changed little since those Pleistocene days, and today's critics would probably make the same judgments as their predecessors. "With all my heart, I recommend staying away from the slick and repulsive come-on called Oh! Calcutta!, "wrote Brendan Gill of The New Yorker. "Voyeurs of the city unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains," added Clive Barnes in the New York Times. "Far from being a sexual stimulant, Oh! Calcutta! is an anaphrodisiac," declared TIME's T.E. Kalem...
...Brelis, reporting Horowitz's triumphant and poignant return to Moscow capped 20 hours of interviews and conversation with the virtuoso and his wife Wanda. It was by far the longest stretch of time Horowitz has ever agreed to spend with a journalist. "I usually cover wars, politics and disasters," says Brelis, "so this was a very different kind of assignment. Horowitz was pleased that I was not a musician. 'We can discuss politics,' he said. And we did. He has a remarkable, nimble mind. The hours with him and Wanda were like reliving not only the history of music...