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...thought her trip to Charleston had been in vain. Blonde Betty Lee Woolridge was an almost classic example of the wreckage caused when a heart is crippled by rheumatic fever. At 21, Betty Lee weighed only 85 pounds; veins in her neck stood out like whipcords; her abdomen was swollen with a fluid by-product of congestive heart failure. Doctors in her home town of Canton, Ohio had told her she had only a year to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hearts & Scalpels | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...long-distance call to Washington late yesterday afternoon, Chet Patterson, National Chairman of the American Veterans Committee, told officials of the College chapter that March subsistence checks will be swollen with the pay increase approved Tuesday by the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vets' Pay Boost Begins in March | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

Fearful that membership drives of more active organizations would deplete their swollen ranks, the SAL admitted it might lodge a mild pretest with College officials. "All this reform balderdash is getting rather trying," sighed President Bottle. "It's getting so a man can't stagnate in peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Move Over,' Mutters Lethargic New Apathy League to Energetic Groups | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

Severe slashes in today's swollen enrollment totals must come in the near future if the University is to make its "maximum contribution to the nation's welfare," President Conant urged yesterday in his annual report to the Board of Overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Advises Cut in University's Enrollment | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

...rebels had dynamited the Bourazani bridge across the rain-swollen Aoos River, apparently the only avenue of relief (see map). When Greek army engineers tried to repair the bridge, they were dispersed by rebel shells from high ground to the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Siege | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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