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...world's fourth known family case of female hemophilia was reported in Seattle by two University of Washington internists. Thomas Newcomb and Martin Matter. Their discovery, confirmed by standard tests: a seven-year-old girl who reversed the usual transmission pattern (mother-carrier-to-son) by inheriting the disease from her father's side of the family.* A paternal grand-uncle is known to have had bleeding problems in childhood; there is no maternal hemophilia history. The girl was hospitalized after loosening baby teeth caused excessive bleeding, is now responding favorably to standard treatment (i.e., injection of fresh...
...three of the other female hemophiliacs' families were British, all fitted the classic Mendelian inheritance pattern: a father-bleeder, a non-bleeding mother-carrier. One of the hemophiliac daughters successfully bore a child (TIME, July 16, 1951), but was later forced to undergo surgical removal of the uterus after she nearly bled to death...
...need to make decisions. Sooner or later in sport we run up against situations which are too big for us to manage. In real life we can dodge them. We can play hide-and-seek with reality . . . In sport we cannot. It shakes our roots with its confusing pattern of success and failure . . . Quick decisions are needed. As a result, sport leads to the most remarkable self-discovery of our limitations as well as our abilities. It was sport that . . . made it easier for me to think about the parallel stress that faces us in real life...
...biggest deal ever signed by a U.S. shipper, and Federal Maritime Administrator Louis S. Rothschild hopes that it will be a pattern for other U.S. lines, and a big step towards leveling out the feast-or-famine conditions that have plagued American shipbuilders...
...natural wood growth found in trees, usually about the roots . . . once the dead bark is removed the cherished Kobu is revealed, unusual in form, beautiful in grain, often rare in color, and no two ever alike." The Kobu artist then takes the root and begins a long and traditional pattern of hand rubbing and waxing (often with rare and expensive waxes) to bring it to a perfect finish. The preparation and mounting of a difficult kobu may take from six months to a year...